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Resilient Nation

How communities respond to systemic breakdown

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• Preparedness Now How to prepare for an earthquake in California. Preparedness is going to be a major theme of Resilient Nation. continue reading Posted by Charlie Edwards on 14th November 2008
• Emergency Planning 2.0 The following is an article from Wired about how the LAFD are evolving into a web 2.0 outfit. 'Firefighters are known for their bravery (and their popularity with the ladies). But geek cred? Not so much. Brian Humphrey is trying to change that. From a decommissioned bomb shelter four stories beneath Los Angeles City Hall, this 23-year veteran is single-handedly hauling the city's fire department into the Web 2.0 era. He has about 80 projects in the works—involving everything from Twitter... continue reading Posted by Charlie Edwards on 11th November 2008
• Blogging will be lite It's a case of too many deadlines, not enough time and a whole stack of papers to get through.Some quite interesting stuff from the RUSI - including a very useful overview from Bruce Mann, an interesting presentation from David Steven and one from Jim McManus, the Assistant Director - Health Improvement at Barking and Dagenham Primary Care Trust.While presentations about the resilience of the CNI, the role of the private sector and evolution of emergency management is very interesting readers... continue reading Posted by Charlie Edwards on 20th October 2008
• London Bombings and wikipedia Video showing the the first 24 hours of editing on a wikipedia page for the July bombings in 2005. Social media in action! continue reading Posted by Charlie Edwards on 14th October 2008
• Contributions to Resilience Today and tomorrow I'm at RUSI's annual conference on resilience. Will let you know if I hear/ read anything of value. continue reading Posted by Charlie Edwards on 8th October 2008
• On the Brink My reading list is growing by the day. But I've spotted the following collection of essays by emergency-response experts representing corporations, local chambers of commerce, federal and local government, academia, and humanitarian-aid organization. The collection is here (pdf)Will post anything useful... continue reading Posted by Charlie Edwards on 6th October 2008
• Ike: Recovery That Works From the The New York Sun - excellent example of bottom up activity in motion...HOUSTON — Perhaps the most salient moment during Hurricane Ike came Saturday morning shortly before 8 a.m. when officials delivered two news conferences. From Washington, President Bush explained that Ike was a serious storm, that Secretary Chertoff of the Department of Homeland Security would fly to Houston when conditions permitted, and that the federal government was on the lookout for price gouging, a... continue reading Posted by Charlie Edwards on 5th October 2008
• Gulf Coast Recovery Project Interesting work being done on the Gulf Coast Recovery Project by the Mercatus Center http://www.mercatus.org/ResearchAreaLanding.aspx?Category=186 continue reading Posted by Charlie Edwards on 5th October 2008 Comments (1)
• Rebels with a cause From North Norfolk News: Flood wardens in the north Norfolk village that was hit hardest by last year's storm surge have left emergency planners reeling after announcing they intend to go it alone in a bid to protect their community.  Should another flooding emergency occur in Walcott, near Bacton, the wardens have said they will act independently of county's civil contingency response teams in an effort to “care for and protect” locals in the way they see fit. The newly... continue reading Posted by Charlie Edwards on 3rd October 2008 Comments (1)
• Social Media Social media will be one of the big themes of Resilient Nation. As Clay Shirky has pointed out before - technology has become socially interesting. Citizens and communities may still rely on government agencies to help them in a time of crisis, but there is now lots of evidence that they are doing their own things as well - thanks to Web 2.0 stuff. The point is not that this is making agencies irrelevant - rather it is helping communities become increasingly more resilient - through... continue reading Posted by Charlie Edwards on 25th September 2008 Comments (1)

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