YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Continuity of Operation in Times of Disaster
Essays 211 - 240
who have lost home and family to a natural disaster, the Red Cross provides relief and hope. The American Red Cross is...
blacks in the U.S. and the Caribbean alike (Everybodys: The Caribbean-American Magazine, 1998). Ebonics has invoked considerable ...
be trying to use a 486 or even a Pentium I computer today, but nonprofit organizations dependent on donations or public entities w...
A survey conducted in 1995 by ICR Survey Research Group regarding vulnerability of computers found that sixty six percent of respo...
minds of many - if not most - Americans was a part of the ongoing feud between religious factions in the mideast that occasionally...
specifically designed for such an occurrence. What is the single most important aspect of emergency management falls into category...
to communicate with the customers, but for some industries, such as power, water and communications such as telephone there may ne...
company was located. While no one was able to access the building, real estate sales continued in less affected areas of the city...
assume that a small company should outsource its IT services...2 The point that Childs and Dietrich (2002) seek to convey i...
It can be assumed that the company qualifies as a mid-sized one, however, given the number of employees at its headquarters locati...
building, there were 200 children killed as a result ("Pakistan puts quake toll at 18,000," 2005). One hospital collapsed as well ...
and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the South Pacific Division of the US Army Corps of E...
take out the trash ("Memo to Me," 2007). Of course, many computers are equipped with remainder features that exist on software suc...
days, whereas for a flood or tsunami their may not be a warning at all. The immediate effects of a disaster can be mixed. If there...
reports" (Subramanian, 2006, p. 1). It now includes things like the Internet, teleconferencing and other high tech communication m...
p. 1). It now includes things like the Internet, teleconferencing and other high tech communication methods (Subramanian, 2006). ...
to those impacts than are others. The normative, i.e. not so unique, stressors of Hurricane Katrina are characterized best ...
throughout the first two-thirds of the twentieth century reflects a cyclical recoil of increased famine deaths rather than what on...
by the government for UCIL where 50.9% of the remained in the ownership of Union Carbide Corporation (USA). This indicated the lev...
caused by seismic activity, by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions (Regulatory Intelligence Data, 1998). Tsunamis can also be caus...
did X, Y would not have happened." Of course, they cannot know this for sure. At the same time, throwing up ones hands and claimin...
period that passed from the time the first warnings of Hurricane Katrina were sounded, and the actual landfall of the storm. It se...
In five pages this Florida based investment brokerage and financial planning firm is considered in terms of a plan for disaster re...
in General Its a given that disasters are unpredictable; if we could predict them accurately they would be far less damaging, be...
efforts of the international community" (Helton 192). The following examination of UN leadership looks specifically at its efforts...
Columbia disaster, it was determined that a multitude of the problem which had been uncovered during the investigation which took ...
Current Narrows Bridge is a great American saga. When Galloping Gertie splashed into Puget Sound, it created ripple effects across...
has precedence over the states. In practice, it is cooperative federalism that has largely held sway. In Federalist 32, Alexande...
What role does a crisis counselor play as part of a multidisciplinary first response team? What services can a crisis counselor pr...
The paper presents a process which may be used for disaster recovery and contingency planning, focusing on IT assets and systems. ...