National Center for Disaster Prepardness

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The Disaster Relief Fund (DRF) is running dangerously low as the busiest time of the disaster season arrives and as lawmakers debate spending levels for the coming year. The DRF is the source for myriad programs under the Federal Emergency Management Agency that provide disaster assistance to impacted communities.

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Government Disaster Preparedness All-Hazards Hazard 72

everbridge

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Events such as the devastating incident in Maui serve as grim reminders of the ongoing challenges that persist in disaster preparedness and response. Nationalize disaster response In a similar vein, more coordination around disaster preparedness and response should be unified across state, local, regional, and federal governments.

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Disaster Preparedness Alert All-Hazards Technology 105

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Challenges of the Current Preliminary Damage Assessment Process After a major disaster in the U.S., This manual process requires assessors to physically visit each site, which can be time-consuming, dangerous, labor-intensive, and subject to human error, particularly in areas with severe destruction or hazardous conditions.

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everbridge

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

To fulfill duty of care standards, corporations, educational institutions, hospitals, and government agencies should evaluate and test the health of communication networks and information systems before a severe weather event occurs. Use these tests to provide recipients with hurricane preparedness information.

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Fusion Risk Management

AUGUST 7, 2023

With this in mind, it’s becoming increasingly important that organizations look at climate change and natural disaster preparedness not just from an ESG (environmental, social, and governance) perspective but also from an operational resiliency one.

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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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Pandemic Disaster Preparedness All-Hazards Government 52

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

MARCH 27, 2025

The disaster highlighted the need for disaster preparedness and offered valuable lessons as governments adapt to the new normal of increasingly extreme events. Dr. Pierre Gentine , the Director of LEAP , was in Valencia at the time of this natural disaster, working at the University of Valencia during his sabbatical.

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National Center for Disaster Prepardness

AUGUST 22, 2024

However, the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina made it clear that the field had prioritized terrorist events to the detriment of other disasters. Lessons learned after Katrina led the field to refocus again on an all-hazards and a more whole-community-oriented planning approach. eastern seaboard and Caribbean islands.

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National Center for Disaster Prepardness

MAY 12, 2021

Thus, identifying and planning for the risks of potential disasters, such as a pandemic, is the first step to ensuring that communities and regions are prepared for them. Although each hazard mitigation plan is approved by FEMA, each state widely varies in how thoroughly it includes pandemic risk assessment and strategy in the plan.

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Hazard Pandemic Mitigation Natural Hazard 64

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

MAY 20, 2020

As the United States enters its second month of widespread closure in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, state and local governments across the country continue to rely on stay-at-home orders to stem the spread of the virus. Millions more Americans live in unsafe and unhealthy housing conditions that make home quarantine problematic.

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National Center for Disaster Prepardness

MAY 13, 2020

Despite being deemed essential workers, many are not provided with personal protective equipment (PPE), hazard pay , or in many cases union protections. State and local governments have offered varied support, from limitations on foreclosures and evictions , to utility disconnection suspensions , and limits on debt collection.

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Healthcare All-Hazards Disaster Preparedness Vulnerability 40

Recovery Diva

DECEMBER 3, 2024

3pp) “Disasters in the United States have become more frequent, severe, and expensive in recent years. Government agencies and scientific experts expect these trends to continue due to climate change and increased development and population in areas vulnerable to hazards. 93, 288, as amended).

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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". The response to these floods revealed a lack of crucial connections in civil protection between the federal government and the states. At least 184 people died and devastation was widespread.

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