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Google Cloud launches new sustainability offerings to help public sector agencies improve climate resilience

Google Public Sector

With these data-driven insights, public sector agencies and researchers can improve their response time to climate disasters, make more accurate predictions, and implement disaster-response plans with greater confidence. Read Article. Click here to learn more about Google Cloud sustainability.

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The Primacy of Social Capital for Community Resilience

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Transportation accidents. Aldrich and Meyer argued for greater attention to the role of social capital in a seminal 2015 article by in the American Behavioral Scientist. Earthquakes. Ice storms. Infectious disease outbreaks. Industrial accidents. Chemical spills. Structural collapse. Grid failure. Water contamination. Factory closures.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

b) Technological disasters, caused by malfunction or unintended consequences of technology. Included are toxic spills, transportation crashes and the effects of human error. (c) c) Social disasters, including crowd crushes, riots and strikes among the providers of critical infrastructure. (d) Disasters 34(2): 552-570.

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