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Overregulation, Opportunity and Corruption
Overregulation can lead to immense corruption and crimes of opportunity. This fact has been proven throughout history time and again. The most common and notable example is the prohibition era…
Innovation: Real Attitude or a Buzzword?
Formal peer review can work against innovation by denying ideas that do not fit within a discipline’s boundaries. When a learned opinion does not dovetail closely with what we already…
Adaptive Organizations
Has public administration entered a new, profoundly different era, one where a new philosophy for public management and leadership must be designed? Reflecting this futuristic thought, Larry Arrington in his…
Local Government Attorney’s Role in Disaster Preparedness & Response
When disasters strike, the legal issues involved in local government are some of the most misunderstood and confusing aspects of the disaster preparation, response and recovery process. This makes the…
Community Engagement and Public Health Preparedness: Santa Rosa County
The Florida Department of Health in Santa Rosa County draws support for planning and preparedness from a diverse network of partners, including county emergency management, state health officials, a regional…
Citizen Centered Disaster Management Strategies
It is a strong strategy to decentralize disaster preparedness back onto the individual and community levels. If bottom-up disaster planning is an approach government wants to pursue, the government …
Facing a Data Gap in Decision Making, Local Governments Look To Cross-Sector Partners
Cities are increasingly recognizing the power that data holds to shape their decision making, but they often lack the capacity to translate data into effective policies. By working with other…
Planning for the Local Impacts of Climate Migration
Changing climate patterns have the potential to spur significant migration of populations displaced by flooding, economic collapse and other disasters over the next century. While much current policy attention is…
You Just Don’t Understand
Columnists write that many American citizens do not trust government. Another view might be that government “doesn’t understand us.” This complaint is often heard at state and local levels and…
Look on the Bright Side: Competing Values of Daylight Saving Time
What do golfers, trick-or-treaters and BBQers have in common? They all support daylight saving time or at least the industries that represent their interests do.…
Bringing Cyber Security into Emergency Management
It is no longer possible to engage meaningfully in emergency management or disaster response without thinking of cyber risks and information technology. From wastewater facilities to transportation infrastructure, we…