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Artificial [Un]intelligence and Disaster Management

Emergency Planning

At the present time, perhaps the greatest potential of AI in disaster management is in its presumed ability to use its algorithms and data banks to provide synthesised information quicker than traditional methods can do so. 2024) suggests that in this it is close to disaster management but not quite part of it.

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Former FEMA Administrator Calls for Reform

Recovery Diva

From The Hill: Why America Needs Disaster Reform Now. Author is Brock Long. Today, FEMA is managing more than 100 active disaster recovery efforts nationwide and that does not account for the other crises they have been called to support other federal agencies with, like the COVID-19 pandemic and the southern border.

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New Book Review

Recovery Diva

disaster management specialist, PDC Global. The book has sixteen (16) chapters of which the first four were written by the editors, and the remaining twelve (12) each written by different authors. The framework introduced by the editors is applied to all the case studies covered by varying authors in the rest of the chapters.

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B.C.’s New Bill 31 – Emergency and Disaster Management Act

CCEM Strategies

s Emergency Management Legislation Has Arrived Marking a historic moment of modernization for emergency and disaster management governance in B.C. NDP has tabled the new Bill 31 – 2023: Emergency and Disaster Management Act. Long Anticipated Update to B.C.’s and across Canada, the B.C.

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

everbridge

This is what, in the climate environment, the World Meteorological Organization and Disaster Management Agencies at national Government levels are doing. devastation wrought after massive natural disasters. An integrated CEM platform offers a holistic severe weather solution to groups charged with natural disaster management.

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A brief critique of UK emergency arrangements in the light of the Covid-19 crisis

Emergency Planning

Examples are the Stafford Act in the USA, the Disaster Management Act of India and Law 225 of 1992 in Italy. It is unconscionable that major emergencies be managed without a basic law and there are many reasons why the Coronavirus Act is not an acceptable substitute.

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Community Emergency Managers: Maximize Impact with B.C.’s New Indigenous Engagement Funding

CCEM Strategies

s new Emergency and Disaster Management Act (EDMA) was passed, replacing the previous Emergency Program Act. With this new legislation comes substantial new requirements for community emergency managers – many relating to Indigenous engagement. New Legislation, New Requirements, New Funding On November 8, 2023, B.C.’s