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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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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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Training Solutions: Enhancing Tribal Nations’ Readiness and Resilience

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

The National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP) of the Climate School, Columbia University, has been awarded a $1.5 NCDP studies the readiness of governmental and non-governmental systems, the complexities of population recovery, the power of community engagement, and the risks of human vulnerability.

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New Book Review

Recovery Diva

This textbook provides a multitude of case studies each written by academics who are actively teaching and/or have developed curriculum in the fields of crisis, disaster, and/or emergency management with a specific focus on vulnerable populations that are the weakest links in the hazard-risk chain.

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NCDP 20th Anniversary Reflections and Impacts

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

In 2003, the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia University, was founded to provide an academically based, interdisciplinary center focused on the capacity to prevent, respond to, and recover from disasters. and international disaster preparedness, response, and long-term recovery.

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Inclement weather response demands attention

everbridge

Events such as the devastating incident in Maui serve as grim reminders of the ongoing challenges that persist in disaster preparedness and response. On a similar note, the accessibility gap remains prominent, particularly for vulnerable populations such as those with mental health conditions or disabilities.

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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

UNDRR has a recurrent initiative for assessing the state of disaster preparedness around the world, and this results in a document, the Global Assessment Report (GAR), which is issued biennially to coincide with the UN's Global Platform on DRR. International Journal for Disaster Risk Reduction 10(B): 403-502. GNCSODR 2015.