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Prolonged, wide-area electrical power failure

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

lifts [elevators] blocked: people possibly trapped in them trains stranded: people possibly stranded in them traffic control inoperable: possibility of accidents and queues at road junctions critical facilities (hospitals, police stations, etc.)

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Cities, Cultural Heritage and the Culture of Responding to Floods

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In far too many places around Europe and the world, the providers of knowledge and the decision makers in public administration are engaged in a dialogue of the deaf. There are also areas that are not so popular with researchers, and one of these is emergency planning.

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One Working Capital Management Strategic Tool: Interfund Transfers

Death and Taxes

Many governments, therefore, have interfund transfer policies established that regulate the process of using interfund transfers to prevent arbitrary manipulation and misuse of public resources. Her research investigates public finance, public budgeting implementation, public working capital management, and fiscal institutions.

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The New Orthodoxy

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

The function of government is to provide a mix of policies, regulations and services that ensure fair and equal access to the benefits and opportunities of a sustainable prosperity forged from a contemporary focus on “commerce”, climate and care. The policy dimensions of digital transformation are the policy dimensions of good governing.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " Helping government learn ," (2009) -- " All the talk of e-government, digital government, and open source government is really about employing the design method ," (2012) -- " Creating the right program vs. the hype of big data ," (2013) -- " Does the focus on big data mean we miss the opportunity for better use of "little data" ," (2015) -- (..)

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V for Vagina: The Anniversary of Michigan Representative Lisa Brown’s Vagina Monologue

Public Policy Blog

term during her impassioned speech that discussed the implications of a reproductive bill seeking to put new regulations on abortion providers and ban abortions after the 20 week pregnant mark, Representative Barb Byrum (D-Onondaga) was also sent back to the Kids’ Table for her “temper tantrum” when she “caused a disturbance” on the House floor when (..)