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By which I mean here the New Zealand housing markets (though how many other glaring New Zealand policy failures could the term be used of?). I’ve written a couple of columns for the Wellington magazine Capital on housing policy issues (here and here for the 2021 ones) and a few weeks ago the editor asked … Continue reading Unnatural disasters
Blog: The Strategist
The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report warns, once again, that climate-change impacts—hazards such as bushfires, drought and flooding—are becoming more frequent and more intense, damaging nature, people and infrastructure. Yet measures to reduce ...
Blog: Soziopolis. Gesellschaft beobachten
Call for Papers for a Congress in Istanbul, Turkey, from November 30–December 2, 2023. Deadline: November 8, 2023
Blog: Econbrowser
From Bodenstein and Scaramucci (2024): If one thought that climatological disasters would increase in frequency with global climate change, then one can infer larger and larger overall economic losses.
Blog: The Strategist
Australia has a relatively new but well-proven adjunct to its crisis and disaster management tools. While previous frameworks focused on intra-governmental planning and response, the National Coordination Mechanism (NCM) embraces the capabilities of the public, ...
Blog: USAPP
In When Disasters Come Home: Making and Manipulating Emergencies In The West, David Keen considers how powers in the Global North exploit, or even manufacture, disasters in the Global South for political or economic gain. Though taking issue with Keen’s engagement with psychoanalysis, Daniele-Hadi Irandoost finds the book an insightful exploration of the global power dynamics involved … Continued
Blog: Reason.com
Weather and climate disaster losses as a percentage of U.S. GDP have not increased between 1990 and 2019, a new study finds.
Blog: The Strategist
In a recent Strategist article, ASPI senior fellow Gill Savage talked about the importance of preparedness for Australia to ensure our 'economy, society and communities are sustainable and resilient despite the complex multi-hazard environment we ...
Blog: Global Voices
Although it is animals that die during dzud, these disasters affect the entire nation.
Blog: USAPP
When disasters or emergencies strike, public agencies must often work together to return communities to normalcy. Tianyi Xiang and Yifan Chen examine why some public agencies coordinate with others in preparation for emergencies and disasters and the combination of factors which drives this active preparedness. Looking at how public transit agencies prepare for extreme weather … Continued
Blog: PolitiFact - Rulings and Stories
"Last year alone, natural disasters in America caused $178 billion in damages."
Blog: Reason.com
"I've seen signs in different people's yards in the past after these disasters, ... 'You loot, we shoot.' ... You never know what's behind that door."
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From the decision to cancel the Edmonton Hub Lab to the handout of services to DynaLIFE to unacceptable wait times for routine community collections, the handling of medical lab services by the UCP government has been a litany of entirely predictable disasters. Worse still: rather than the product of mistakes, these disasters are the inevitable result of deliberate policy choices on the part of the UCP. With the days of this election campaign ticking down, the contending parties are not talking about labs. But they should—and should, for a change, listen to what lab workers have to say.
Blog: Global Voices
The picture in Jamaica is similar to elsewhere in the Caribbean, where there are fears about food security as a result of repeated "natural disasters" caused by human-induced climate change.
Blog: The Strategist
Australians are used to seeing the nation's first responders rushing to the scene of natural disasters in our region. Australian navy ships and helicopters on operations make for dramatic television when cyclones, volcanic eruptions and ...