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Legal Issues for Volunteers Responding to Disasters

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

Elizabeth Van Nostrand is an associate professor in the Department of Health Services Administration and Policy at the Temple University College of Public Health. She is the co-author of three public health emergency law bench books for health departments in the District of Columbia, Louisiana and Pennsylvania.

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Defining Open Data

GovLoop

CDC Data Maps Illustrate Threat Impacts It’s often impossible to confine environmental and public health events to a specific jurisdiction, agency or area of responsibility. That is particularly true of disasters with wide-ranging impacts. 4 Tips for Using Open Data Evaluate your repository.

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ARPA SLFRF Update: Interim Final Rule Expands Eligible Uses

Center for Community Progress

4 Acquire, rehabilitate, and sell or reuse properties; develop plans; and other CDBG-eligible activities. 7 We encourage communities to consider Treasury’s advice to categorize any projects eligible under the pre-existing ARPA SLFRF public health and negative economic impacts eligible use category as such.

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Capital shallowing: the effect of disinvestment on government functioning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

As a term, apparently it was coined in development economics, making the point that as countries grow in population, there is less money invested in per capita (" Population Pressures, Saving, and Investment in the Third World: Some Puzzles ," Economic Development and Cultural Change , 1988).