{"id":51703,"date":"2016-10-18T14:02:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T00:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=51703"},"modified":"2020-03-05T15:31:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T01:31:01","slug":"disaster-preparedness-solutions-for-hawaii-based-businesses-being-developed-at-uh-west-oahu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/10\/18\/disaster-preparedness-solutions-for-hawaii-based-businesses-being-developed-at-uh-west-oahu\/","title":{"rendered":"Disaster preparedness solutions for Hawai\u02bbi-based businesses being developed at <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> West O\u02bbahu"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/uhwo-seal.jpg\" alt=\"U H West Oahu seal\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1088\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhwo.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span><\/a> Associate Professor <strong>Jason Levy<\/strong> is serving as the principal investigator on a two-year, $1.6 million grant from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eda.gov\/\"><abbr title=\"United States\">U.S.<\/abbr> Economic Development Administration<\/a> to promote business resilience and public-private sector partnerships in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>. Levy is teaming with <strong>Ross Prizzia<\/strong>, professor of public administration and director of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhwo.hawaii.edu\/academics\/degrees-and-certificates\/bachelor-of-arts-in-public-administration\/disaster-preparedness-emergency-management\/\">disaster preparedness and emergency management programs<\/a> at <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span>, to develop\u00a0timely and valuable solutions for business continuity planning and disaster management. <\/p>\n<p>The proposal\u00a0involves the\u00a0planning and development of a business recovery center in\u00a0<span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> to enhance disaster preparedness\u00a0and create a robust business resilience network that strives for best disaster management practices and continuous improvement.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The state of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> has urgent needs for both pre-disaster business continuity planning and post-disaster recovery actions due to its location, topography and\u00a0demographics. As the most isolated population center in the world, transportation travel times and import\u00a0costs to <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> are significant.\u00a0As well, <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> is exposed to a wide range of natural, health-related and intentional\u00a0threats (from hurricanes and\u00a0tsunamis\u00a0to active volcanoes and emerging infectious diseases),&rdquo; Levy said.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Related <abbr>UH<\/abbr> News story<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/12\/02\/west-oahu-students-part-of-first-community-emergency-response-campus-team-in-hawaii\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> disaster preparedness students become first-ever certified <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Community Emergency Response Team<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Through this disaster resilience grant, Levy and Prizzia are working with government organizations and the\u00a0private sector, as well as voluntary, faith-based, and community stakeholders active in disaster management. Their disaster resilience work includes developing a business recovery center annex to the State&#8217;s Emergency Operations Plan and Standard Operating Guide, including identifying and sizing emergency communications requirements to permit continuity of operations, as well as developing, coordinating, and performing industry outreach, training and exercises to support the disaster response and recovery capacity of large and small\u00a0businesses in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Leila Wai Shimokawa<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty, Jason Levy and Ross Prizzia, collaborate to develop timely and valuable solutions for business continuity planning and disaster management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[498,1409,224,59],"class_list":["post-51703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-business","tag-disaster-emergency","tag-public-administration","tag-uh-west-oahu","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51703"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112559,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51703\/revisions\/112559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}