Location, Location, Location: Analyzing signals from mobile devices can help improve understanding of how people move after disasters

By Editor|2022-02-15T17:46:15+00:00February 15th, 2022|

How people move after a natural disaster is key to understanding how to best deploy resources to assist those affected or displaced. While attempts have been made previously to gather this information via surveys or [...]

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Hitting Home: The economic effects of natural disasters on affordable housing can greatly slow recoveries

By Editor|2022-02-15T17:42:17+00:00February 15th, 2022|

Affordable housing is often the hardest hit during disasters, as it tends to be in less desirable locations which are more prone to flood, subject to pollution or contamination from surrounding industry, or of older [...]

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Walking Away: Increased turnover during the Great Resignation is creating new cybersecurity challenges

By Editor|2022-02-15T17:40:27+00:00February 15th, 2022|

With many companies seeing large numbers of employees walking away during the pandemic, questions have been raised as to how those same companies are ensuring their cybersecurity during periods of high employee turnover. More specifically, [...]

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EDI for Emergency Management: A discussion of Emergency Management in the Black Community

By Editor|2022-02-15T17:38:48+00:00February 15th, 2022|

Writing for the City of Philadelphia, Olivia N. Gillison, Community Preparedness Program Manager for the Philadelphia Office of Emergency Management, offers some thoughts and insights into the importance of considering and integrating the Black experience [...]

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Stressful News: Images of disasters on television and social media can cause post-traumatic stress in children

By Editor|2022-02-15T17:36:20+00:00February 15th, 2022|

The stress of a disaster affects more than just those in the immediate area. Recent research has shown how news coverage of disasters can raise anxiety in children, and put them at increased risk of [...]

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