Disaster Zone Podcast

MARCH 12, 2024

Take any emergency or disaster and you will find that communications is the key ingredient that needs to be present to have a successful outcome. Ivan also received his Masters at Arkansas State University in Emergency Management and Disaster Preparedness. This is the topic for this podcast.

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Emergency Planning

MAY 30, 2019

UNDRR has a recurrent initiative for assessing the state of disaster preparedness around the world, and this results in a document, the Global Assessment Report (GAR), which is issued biennially to coincide with the UN's Global Platform on DRR. The GAR notes that "we all live in communities". GNCSODR 2015.

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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. Europe is not well protected against flooding. What is civil protection?

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National Center for Disaster Prepardness

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In 2003, the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia University, was founded to provide an academically based, interdisciplinary center focused on the capacity to prevent, respond to, and recover from disasters. and international disaster preparedness, response, and long-term recovery.

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Risk Management Monitor

JUNE 9, 2023

Over 400 fires have caused roughly 10 million acres of burn damage so far, and have blanketed a wide swath of North America in smoke, creating orange skies and toxic levels of air pollution for communities all the way from Canada to the Southeastern United States. There are fires in nearly all of Canada’s provinces.

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Disaster Recovery

AUGUST 6, 2019

Temperatures are rising, humidity levels are dropping sharply and there are prolonged drought spells, all thanks to global warming. A wildfire in such a place could do more harm than if it occurred in a drier region as residents in Issaquah aren’t used to dealing with these hazards. Conclusion.

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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. Testimony Submitted January 16, 2022. By: Jeff Schlegelmilch, MPH, MBA.

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