disaster restoration Articles
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Generating Pure Air
Generating Pure Air is an article written by Johnathan McCubbin, Vice President at International Ozone Technologies Group, Inc. (IOTGinc.). In the article you can find the pros and cons of using both ozone generators and hydroxyl generators. The benefits will include removing odors, purifying the air, and improving indoor air quality. It will also cover some applications and additional ways to ...
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An information management system for the emergency management of hurricane disasters
Access to accurate and comprehensive information for a wide spectrum of topics to support hurricane disaster planning and response is of critical importance to emergency managers. This paper presents the development of IMASH, an Information Management System for Hurricane disasters. IMASH is an intelligent integrated dynamic information management tool, capable of providing comprehensive data ...
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Broward County Public Schools Technical Assistance
Background Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) is the sixth largest school system and the largest fully accredited K-12 and adult school system in the United States. Serving over 258,000 students in Broward County, Florida, BCPS has 232 traditional and 76 charter schools. Through a contract with the State of Florida, O’Brien’s Response Management Inc. (O’Brien’s) ...
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Planning for disaster recovery
Q: When is a business disaster not a complete disaster? A: When you have a disaster recovery system in place, of course. The dictionary defines disaster as “an occurrence that causes great distress or destruction”. Any business can be affected by natural disasters, like recent weather patterns, contrived disasters such as the credit crunch, or even physical disasters like the loss of your ...
By IMSM Ltd
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Q’eqchi’ best practices and livelihoods in the wetlands of El Estor, Izabal, Guatemala
The Q’eqchi’ communities of El Estor, Izabal, Guatemala, are vulnerable to climate variability and different hydro-climatic threats. As part of the Partners for Resilience country programme, the Guatemalan Red Cross and Wetlands International prepared a study on wetland-related best practices and livelihoods of the Maya Q’eqchi’ people. The study systematizes their ...
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Development of priority setting process for the small stream restoration projects using multi criteria decision analysis
This study performed a flood risk assessment using one of the multi criteria decision-making methods to identify the small stream basins with high risk of flooding and to determine the optimal small stream restoration measures by priority ranking for flood risk. The 12 representative factors for the flood risk assessment were carefully selected and constructed for the three main aspects, such ...
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A recipe for resilience
Introduction The Partners for Resilience (PfR) alliance has been working since 2011 to reduce the impact of natural hazards on vulnerable people in nine countries: Ethiopia, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mali, Nicaragua, the Philippines and Uganda. We are the Netherlands Red Cross, CARE Nederland, Cordaid, the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, Wetlands International and our many local ...
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Nuclear education trends after Fukushima nuclear accident
Nuclear education has seen many ups and downs since the birth of nuclear technology. Owing to the highest prior support from all stakeholders during 1960s, nuclear education along with its technology witnessed its peak time. But during late 1990s, it was felt that the amount of nuclear knowledge would become sub–critical if no countermeasures were taken to arrest the declining situation of ...
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How to Win at Restoration Job Management + Sweepstakes
“Are you a restoration contractor?” – Check. “Do you want to deliver more jobs on time, on budget?” – Check. Check. “Do you want to improve your bottom line?” – Check. As a restoration contractor, you have a lot on your plate, and some days it seems impossible that you’ll be able to balance it all. How many new jobs have come in this ...
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5 Reasons Every Restoration Company Should Go Paperless
Cloud storage, data integrity, the mobile office are just some of the tech “buzzwords” you hear regularly. But it’s not the buzz of a bee that you’re hearing. You can’t swat it away. It’s the sound of technological advancement converting businesses like yours to a paperless office. Read on for five reasons why every restoration company should go paperless. If ...
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Climate Change Roundtables: Valuable Encounter Platforms towards Resilience
As a result of the socio-economic situation and the high level of environmental deterioration, Guatemala has been classified as one of the countries in the world with a high risk of multiple natural and anthropogenic threats, exposing its population, infrastructure, and services to disasters. To make matters even worse, climate change is threatening to change the country’s overall climatic ...
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Living with the floods, not against them
“Yes, we are illiterate sir, but we are engineers as far as our experience with water and rivers is concerned”, says Phushi Mahato, a villager in the Gosi Kandak floodplains in North-Bihar in India. As an outcome of water resource management that failed to understand the role of fluvial regimes in delta, Phushi and his fellow village members have now become vulnerable to floods ...
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Advanced Portable VSATs for Commercial SATCOM Users
Commercial SATCOM (COMSATCOM) users such as first responders, intelligence community personnel, oil and gas mining exploration field technicians, or corporate entities requiring Continuity of Operations (CoOP) or more traditional business continuity applications, all require instant, reliable, high-speed data, voice, and video connectivity in locations where other communication ...
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The Strategic Inter-Institutional Agenda in Guatemala
Working together to create resilient communities, the Partners for Resilience3 (PfR) identified a significant opportunity to increase collaboration between the governing bodies in Guatemala. Partners for Resilience joins the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (MARN), the Executive Secretariat of the National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction (SE-CONRED), and the National Council ...
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