Remove Disaster Management Remove Government Remove Hazard
article thumbnail

Book Review: Case Studies in Disaster Recovery

Recovery Diva

This new book is the first released book (volume) of the four-volume series of Disaster and Emergency Management Case Studies in Adaptation and Innovation with three books forthcoming, each representing one of the four phases of disaster management (mitigation/prevention, preparedness, response, recovery).

article thumbnail

Transforming Disaster Management: The Promise and Challenges of AI in Wildfire Damage Assessment

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Recently, the exploration of artificial intelligence (AI) offers possibilities for enhancing the efficiency and speed of damage assessments, affording a shift toward more technologically integrated approaches in disaster management. Challenges of the Current Preliminary Damage Assessment Process After a major disaster in the U.S.,

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Article by the Diva in South Korean Newspaper

Recovery Diva

.” Claire Rubin, a researcher who works as a disaster prevention consultant in the U.S., emphasized training and education as an iteration of responding to various disasters on Sept. ” “The nature and components of disasters vary widely, requiring training and ongoing education of key personnel,” she urged.

article thumbnail

Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

Chapter 4 “Lessons from Co-occuring Disasters: COVOID-19 and Eight Hurricanes”by Alessandra Jerolleman, Shirley Laska and Julie Torres is a complimentary review of Louisiana government leaders and emergency managers responses to a set of simultaneous disasters: global pandemic and an “epidemic” of landfalling hurricanes during the 2020 season.

article thumbnail

Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

everbridge

The report “The Human Cost of Disasters 2000-2019” also records major increases in other categories including drought, wildfires , and extreme temperature events. There has also been a rise in geophysical events including earthquakes and tsunamis which have killed more people than any of the other natural hazards under review in this report.

article thumbnail

The 1980 Southern Italian Earthquake After Forty Years

Emergency Planning

It is salutary to reflect that many of those scholars who have studied this disaster are too young to have experienced it. The year 1980 was something of a watershed in the field of disaster risk reduction (or disaster management as it was then known). For the local economy, all was not lost, or not quite all.

article thumbnail

Common Misconceptions about Disaster

Emergency Planning

Myth 14: Martial law must be imposed after disaster in order to stop society from breaking down altogether. Reality: The imposition of martial law after disaster is extremely rare and implies that normal mechanisms of government were never effective in any way. Myth 17: Unburied dead bodies constitute a health hazard.