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Business Continuity Vs. Emergency Management

Disaster Zone Podcast

Government and businesses work side by side to prepare their respective organizations to become disaster resilient. Erika became a subject matter expert in national security and disaster preparedness and response while advising different commands including during high-risk situations while deployed in Afghanistan.

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

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

However, the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina made it clear that the field had prioritized terrorist events to the detriment of other disasters. 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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Idaho Office of Emergency Management

Disaster Zone Podcast

As the Director, he is responsible for Idaho’s emergency preparedness and response planning in support of the Idaho Homeland Security and Emergency Management Strategies. As the Governor’s Authorized Representative Brad acts as the single point of contact for all federal, regional, and state emergency management activities.

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Supply Chain Insights

Disaster Zone Podcast

Philip Palin is the author of Out of the Whirlwind: Supply and Demand after Hurricane Maria , published by Rowman & Littlefield (2019). Also author of Considering Catastrophe. Principal author of Catastrophe Preparation and Prevention series from McGraw-Hill. Also author of Considering Catastrophe.

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A Growing Threat of Violence Against Public Officials

Disaster Zone Podcast

His fieldwork has taken him inside white supremacist groups across the United States where he has been embedded with racist skinheads, Klan members, neo-Nazis, and anti-government militias. He is co-author (along with Robert Futrell) of an award-winning book American Swastika: Inside the White Power Movement’s Hidden Spaces of Hate.

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Cities, Cultural Heritage and the Culture of Responding to Floods

Emergency Planning

The response to these floods revealed a lack of crucial connections in civil protection between the federal government and the states. Each new disaster reveals the shortcomings of hazard mitigation and disaster preparedness. The last of these is the theatre of operations, as in essence all disasters are local affairs.

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Feeling helpless at home? Try giving

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Historically federal plans have taken weeks or months to get money to individuals after disasters, with many formal assistance programs favoring those who are not most in need , or at the very least offering only an incomplete solution , with charitable giving a necessary complement to government assistance.