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The future of emergency management. Part 4. Three modest, local-level narratives.
…life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt...
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The future of emergency management. Part 2. Emergency management itself is suffering a disaster.
The future of emergency management starts with the present. And today, emergency management in the United States is in growing...
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The future of emergency management. Part 1. The future of emergencies themselves.
“If a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound if no one is around to hear it?”...
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If Dick Hallgren were alive today…what would be his message?
Meteorologists are hardly celebrities. They’re not visible on the world stage in the same way as entertainers or political figures...
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Remedial reading – Laudate Deum
The previous LOTRW post, occasioned by the conjunction of Easter, Earth Week, and the passing of Pope Francis, took a...
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Laudato si’ – redux.
Praise be to you! Pope Francis died this morning. The news media are saturated with material and that material is...
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Resilience to hazards and disaster recovery? A FEMA mission, but much more.
The previous post revisited resilience to hazards and hazards recovery, LOTRW topics covered multiple times over past years. That reflection...
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Here in the United States, is a natural disaster an attack on one state, or an attack on all?
Hmm. Why does the question seem familiar? Oh yes! The same idea is enshrined in NATO treaty article 5: The...
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Bromley’s No science, no surplus – revisited.
In 1999, D. Allan Bromley, a former science advisor to President George Herbert Walker Bush, wrote an op-ed for the...
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Bullying? Not an effective habit for turbulent (or any other) times.
Tell me something I don’t know, Bill. Most of us consider this is something we’ve always known – innately, or...
