National Center for Disaster Prepardness

MAY 30, 2025

Each phase of the disaster management cyclemitigation, preparedness, response, and recoveryrequires different tools, datasets, and approaches, all of which can benefit from the application of AI (Table 1). Its outputs directly informed the Metropolitan Transportation Authoritys (MTA) first Climate Resilience Roadmap in April 2024.

Natural Hazard 69

Natural Hazard Telecommunications All-Hazards Hazard 69

everbridge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The global landscape has experienced an undeniable surge in hazards over the past decade. Natural disasters, pandemics, cybersecurity events, and other crises have wrought devastation on communities worldwide, leading many to question whether the hazard environment is changing for the worse.

Resilience 52

Resilience All-Hazards Hazard Vulnerability 52

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

JANUARY 19, 2022

Preparedness funding has ebbed and flowed over the years, peaking a few years after 9/11 and gradually decreasing with health security grant programs decreasing by a third to as much as half from their peaks, with similar reductions across all-hazards emergency management grant programs.

Pandemic 52

Pandemic Disaster Preparedness All-Hazards Government 52

Emergency Planning

OCTOBER 21, 2022

What does all this mean for Britain? In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). They lack consistent funding and have little executive authority. So much for the personal reflections.

Management 231

Management Emergency Planning All-Hazards Transportation 231

Emergency Planning

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Since 2008, pandemics have been top of the list of 96 threats and hazards in the UK National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies in all editions. The exercises revealed, for example, that special attention needed to be given to protecting the residents of care homes (PHE 2017, pp. I have taught it every year since then.

Civil Emergency 130

Civil Emergency Pandemic All-Hazards Logistics 130

Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

JUNE 27, 2017

With respect, I disagree: 2017 (and the next couple of years) have the potential to be severely risky to businesses, infrastructure and people. Technology All of the above points are enabled with technology that the 60’s would have marveled at. High-profile symbols of authority or opposing views? Media presence?

Risk Management 130

Risk Management Management Internet All-Hazards 130