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Defining Open Data

GovLoop

CDC Data Maps Illustrate Threat Impacts It’s often impossible to confine environmental and public health events to a specific jurisdiction, agency or area of responsibility. That is particularly true of disasters with wide-ranging impacts.

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Capital shallowing: the effect of disinvestment on government functioning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But the failures with FEMA and disaster response after Hurricane Katrina and under Trump with Puerto Rico and Houston are a good example. But I don't know if the failure of the Army Corps of Engineers and levees was about capital shallowing or just politics, failure to adequately address risk, budget shortfalls, etc.

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ARPA SLFRF Update: Interim Final Rule Expands Eligible Uses

Center for Community Progress

It will likely be more efficient for communities to pursue these activities under that Rule’s “public health and negative economic impacts” eligible use category, rather than trying to pursue them under the CDBG-eligible projects category. Natural Disaster Response and Mitigation: No expenditure limits.

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