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OUR CHALLENGE

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Nowhere is this more true than in the gradual conversion of social media from a source of community cohesion and a means of informing oneself to a purveyor of "alternative facts" and unscientific fantasy, a "manufactured reality" that people nevertheless believe. Therein lies a huge challenge for all of us.

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Resident Engagement in Vacant Lot Greening: Empowering Communities for Neighborhood Revitalization

Center for Community Progress

Resident involvement may also expand program capacity by enabling more lots to be greened more affordably through shared stewardship. Most organizations communicated with residents through physical mailings or email newsletters, informal face-to-face communication, presentations, or website and social media.

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Artificial [Un]intelligence and Disaster Management

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The first problem is that it uses vast, and increasing, amounts of energy, which does not help bring climate change under control, or enable the careful stewardship of the planet's resources. Large language models can help chart the progress of public perception of disaster threats and impacts, as manifest in the mass media and social media.