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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". Each new disaster reveals the shortcomings of hazard mitigation and disaster preparedness. Powerful floods struck Puerto Lumbreras again in 2012.

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Emergency Management on the Southwest Border

Disaster Zone Podcast

Jorge also highlights his belief that emergency management is moving to a stage of our profession where we need to be transitioning from an “all-hazards” approach to one that is “all-crisis.” The podcast discusses their challenge of emergency management’s role in dealing with the influx of migrants.

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Washington State Emergency Management

Disaster Zone Podcast

Washington State is one of the most high hazard states here in the United States. In this podcast we review what the state’s hazards are, how emergency management at the state level is organized and then get Robert’s take on a number of issues facing the State and how it is responding.

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Is your business ready for any disaster? Review this 5-point disaster preparedness checklist

Online Computers

That's why it's important for you to have a disaster preparedness plan (DPP) to help prevent or lessen the damage of a disaster and quickly resume normal business operations. But how can you be sure that your strategy to mitigate disasters will actually work? Assess the risks.

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Communications Challenges in the 21st Century

Disaster Zone Podcast

Ivan also received his Masters at Arkansas State University in Emergency Management and Disaster Preparedness. Merit is a first-of-its-kind, all-hazards, digital credentialing platform that equips emergency responders with innovative tools to securely manage their personnel on-site, no matter the situation.

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How The Media Covers Disasters

Disaster Zone Podcast

Also, the fact that the media has a role in preparing the public for disasters and encouraging individual and family disaster preparedness. Also, the fact that the media has a role in preparing the public for disasters and encouraging individual and family disaster preparedness.

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Hazardous Conditions: Mitigation Planning and Pandemics

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

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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