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Heering, Peter, Oliver Hochadel, and David J. Rhees. eds. Playing with Fire: Histories of the Lightning Rod. Vol. 99. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2009. [Boatwright Circulating Books TH 9061 .P58 2009] I couldn’t resist grabbing this intriguing volume of essays … Continue reading →

Great article from the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) on how global businesses such as Marriot and FedEx dealt with the recent flu pandemic, and what lessons they learned from their experiences. Their main … Continue reading →

The Learning Resource Center (aka “the library”) at the U.S. Fire Administration has a treasure trove of research tools for disaster scientists and emergency services managers. (More to come, I promise!) I couldn’t resist giving a sneak peek of one … Continue reading →

The back cover of this new book from CRC Press claims it contains, “All the Essential Information Needed to Build an Effective Response.” As the book weighs in at just more than 250 pages (inclusive of index and notes), I … Continue reading →

This just in, courtesy of Open CRS: http://opencrs.com/document/R40859/2009-10-14/download/1013/ Effective emergency response is dependent on wireless communications. To minimize communications failures during and after a crisis requires ongoing improvements in emergency communications capacity and capability. The availability of radio frequency spectrum … Continue reading →

We seem to be on a roll here, with open-source publishing and web 2.0 technologies being co-opted by “authoritative” sources. This latest case connects Healthmap.org, with the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. Working together, they have developed an interactive … Continue reading →

Here’s a bright spot in the increasingly depressing ‘jobs and payroll‘ numbers, from CNN and CareerBuilder.com: “Seven Emerging Job Poised for Growth” 5. Emergency management Since the September11 terrorist attacks, jobs in the anti-terrorism field have grown. The required skills … Continue reading →

I’ll just put it out there – I’m a huge fan of nuclear power, and Dominion (our local power company) runs two reactor sites in our region, which generate 30% of their power output. This announcement came through a VA … Continue reading →

A new issue of the International Journal of Emergency Management is out, and this article was an interesting example of studying behaviors in a non-emergency situation: An experimental investigation of post-earthquake travel behaviours: the effects of severity and initial location … Continue reading →