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AI for Wildfires and Heatwaves

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

MedEWSa , the MEDiterranean and pan-European forecast and Early Warning System Against natural hazards project, is another example of AI/ML being leveraged for early warning and decision support systems to address a variety of hazards—including wildfires and heatwaves—across the Euro-Mediterranean and North African region.

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Data and AI for Decision-Support and Policy

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Its outputs directly informed the Metropolitan Transportation Authoritys (MTA) first Climate Resilience Roadmap in April 2024. Accessed 20 May 2025, [link] Global Initiative on Resilience to Natural Hazards through AI Solutions. Focus Group on AI for Natural Disaster Management (FG-AI4NDM). Climate Resilience Roadmap.

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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". Fourthly, relationships of trust and participation need to be built between the authorities and the general public. Powerful floods struck Puerto Lumbreras again in 2012.

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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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The Legacy of the Diva

Recovery Diva

From the Natural Hazards Center at the University of CO, this article about the legacy of Claire Rubin: Student Volunteers Carry Claire Rubin’s Legacy Forward. This is the first time the posting has been about the author!

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Book Review: The Invention of Disaster

Recovery Diva

Book Review: The Invention of Disaster: Power of Knowledge in Discourses of Hazard and Vulnerability. Author : JC Gaillard, Professor of Geography, University of Auckland, New Zealand. The author also challenges the “inclusion” agenda of the Sendai and UN Climate Change frameworks.

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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.