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AI for Early Warning Systems and Anticipatory Action

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Emerging advancements in weather and hazard forecasting enabled by machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) present promising new solutions for adapting to increasingly frequent and severe weather events. United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, 2017). United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, 2017).

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Transforming Disaster Management: The Promise and Challenges of AI in Wildfire Damage Assessment

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

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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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

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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Hazardous Conditions: Mitigation Planning and Pandemics

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Thus, identifying and planning for the risks of potential disasters, such as a pandemic, is the first step to ensuring that communities and regions are prepared for them. Although each hazard mitigation plan is approved by FEMA, each state widely varies in how thoroughly it includes pandemic risk assessment and strategy in the plan.

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Cities, Cultural Heritage and the Culture of Responding to Floods

Emergency Planning

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.