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Making Ends Meet
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... "; and Timothy Tinker, strategic and technical communicator, Booz Allen Hamilton, Washington, DC, U.S. The panelists brought forth a range of expertise that included perspectives from the media, private sector, federal government officials in disaster management, and public health.
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...  how do technological innovations in natural hazard risk assessment help reduce human suffering? and  how can technological innovations help communities use risk information and become more resilient?
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... From this story and others, Mr. Verella shared four key points:  It is essential that systems for reducing disasters are organized on density connected networks instead of a hierarchal tree because if one link fails in a hierarchal tree, the whole system fails.
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... Pre-Disaster Phase: Participants discussed that emergency managers, citizens, and governmental officials could help build resilience in the following ways:  Build collaborative relationships at the community level.  Initiate an emergency warning text message system with a unique alert tone similar to the system that Mexico uses.
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... The DR is a unit of the Division on Earth and Life Studies in the National Academies National Research Council. Presentations How Communities Can Use Risk Assessment Results, Lauren Augustine.pdf, Risk Enterprise, Tim Tinker.pdf Natural Disaster in Haiti's Recent Past, Frantz Verella.pdf Video of entire workshop in four parts Making Ends Meet (1 of 4)
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