National Center for Disaster Prepardness

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

This manual process requires assessors to physically visit each site, which can be time-consuming, dangerous, labor-intensive, and subject to human error, particularly in areas with severe destruction or hazardous conditions. Photo credit: Serge Lavoie/Pexels. Algorithm explanation adapted from Durve, Mihir et al. Wang, D., & Yu, L.

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National Center for Disaster Prepardness

JANUARY 19, 2022

In my role leading the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University’s Climate School, as well as through other positions, I have dedicated my career to fostering the impact of disaster research in the fields of policy and practice. Figure 1: Supplemental appropriations by fiscal year, FY 2000–2021.

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Emergency Planning

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In 2021 a colleague who studies natural hazards wrote to me that "our institute is all but destroyed and colleagues have lost their homes". Each new disaster reveals the shortcomings of hazard mitigation and disaster preparedness. Powerful floods struck Puerto Lumbreras again in 2012.

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