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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". The response to these floods revealed a lack of crucial connections in civil protection between the federal government and the states. Why has this not solved the problem?

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The 10 R's of Crisis Management

Disaster Zone Podcast

Politicians, rock stars and companies have all faced situations where they are in the hot seat. Merit is a first-of-its-kind, all-hazards, digital credentialing platform that equips emergency responders with innovative tools to securely manage their personnel on-site, no matter the situation.

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Nearly two decades after Hurricane Katrina swept through the Gulf Coast, what policies have changed?

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Lessons learned after Katrina led the field to refocus again on an all-hazards and a more whole-community-oriented planning approach. Lawmakers and government agencies have made several adjustments since Hurricane Katrina, fundamentally reshaping the emergency management field. eastern seaboard and Caribbean islands.

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Book Review: Case Studies in Disaster Recovery

Recovery Diva

This way the reader is given a roadmap to pick and choose from, if they wish so, the case studies written by various authors whose chapters span a wide variety of hazards as well as geographical and sociological settings all of which delve into a chosen aspect of disaster recovery towards building resiliency.

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Book Review: Disaster and Emergency Management Methods

Recovery Diva

Key words: environmental governance, sustainability, resilience, climate risk, natural hazard, disaster risk reduction, building regulation. Overall, I commend the editor and authors of the text for providing a value-added resource for a variety of stakeholders including students and practitioners. for paperback., for etext USD.

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A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom

Emergency Planning

National elections in the United Kingdom are likely to bring a change in the political complexion of the government. In a world characterised by rising levels of hazard and threat, improvement of the civil protection system is a necessity. For years, local authorities have been starved of funds and resources. The local level.

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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

Review by Donald Watson, co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley 2011). More than twenty authors are represented in this timely book, edited by Alessandra Jerolleman and William L. He has since served in over thirty nations worldwide as consultant for United Nations, U.S.