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81) Snow
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
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Simple text and illustrations explore the wonders of snow.
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Working paper volume 5
Pub. Date
2016.
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In 2014, US states paid a total of $36 billion in Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits. Out of this amount, $4.5 billion were overpayments to beneficiaries. This estimate is based on audit data collected by the Department of Labor (DOL) which has historically monitored the UI system in each state for compliance with federal rules.
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Natural hazard research working paper volume 98
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[1998]
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This case study developed as part of an investigation into the reassessment of state roles in disaster mitigation and management. This study centers on the issuance of the governor's executive order and the development and passage of legislation based on the recommendations of the Lewis Committee.
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Natural hazard research working paper volume 105
Pub. Date
[2000]
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Nuclear emergency planning and management profoundly depend on computer-aided decision support tools that gather and analyze data on radioactive emissions, meteorology, demography, geography, etc., and provide decision support for prevention/mitigation, response, and recovery. The discussion primarily focuses on issues related to the behavioral and decision-making processes of the various players in the evacuation system, logistics, the generation...
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Natural hazard research working paper volume 96
Pub. Date
[1998]
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This case study is part of an investigation into the reassessment of state roles in disaster mitigation and management. How the Florida state legislature dealt with the crisis of insurance companies wanting to withdraw from the Florida market or to cover their exposed risk is the subject of this case study.
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Natural hazard research working paper volume 100
Pub. Date
[1998]
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Using material on a recent earthquake in Afghanistan as well as insights from theories of disaster management and organizational networks, this paper looks into the effects that network organizations have for disaster management.
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Natural hazard research working paper volume 99
Pub. Date
[1998]
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As we enter the 21st century, we are facing new threats and risks, which may mean we will be dealing with new types of hazards and disasters. The disasters of the future may or may not be bigger or worse, but they are likely to be more complex and require more sophistication in response and recovery.
92) Emergency management in the 21st century: dealing with Al Qaeda, Tom Ridge, and Julie Gerberding
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Natural hazard research working paper volume 108
Pub. Date
[2004]
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For the emergency management community, the incredible events of September 11, 2001, and their many outcomes have led to changes so extensive they are hard to document. A gross indication of the impacts of these changes is evidenced simply by counting the important legislative and bureaucratic changes that have occurred since September 11, 2001. Along with new threats have come new resources, and those resources have new requirements connected to...
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Natural hazard research working paper volume 104
Pub. Date
[2000]
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Focuses on emergency management in the future and some of the key elements of change that appear to have significant implications.
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Natural hazard research working paper volume 97
Pub. Date
1998.
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This case study is part of an investigation into the reassessment of state roles in disaster mitigation and management. This case study centers on the ultimate success of Senator McConnell's struggle to enact a state-wide building code which culminated with the passage 1997, four legislative sessions after it was first introduced.
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Natural hazard research working paper volume 106
Pub. Date
[2000]
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The advent of the Internet has fundamentally altered the discussions of hazard policy between technical experts, public interest activists, and elected risk management policy makers, by providing with the immediacy, duration, geographical reach, and exponential expansion of communications among individuals.
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Natural hazard research working paper volume 101
Pub. Date
[1998]
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This case study developed as part of an investigation into the reassessment of state roles in disaster mitigation and management. This case study concentrates why the Utah legislature waited 13 years to re-establish a seismic safety commission.
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Natural hazard research working paper volume 107
Pub. Date
[2003]
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Focuses on major terrorist events in the past two decades to review how the essential emergency management (EM) infrastructure changed.