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Supply Chain Insights

Disaster Zone Podcast

Philip Palin is the author of Out of the Whirlwind: Supply and Demand after Hurricane Maria , published by Rowman & Littlefield (2019). Principal author and editor of Strategic Playbook: Regional Catastrophic Preparedness and Supply Chain Resilience. Also author of Considering Catastrophe.

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The Beginnings of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP)

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Shortly after the 9/11 attacks and the anthrax exposures, centers throughout the United States were set up to prepare for and make our nation more resilient. Two years later, Dean Rosenfield called and asked if I would come to Columbia and set up a disaster preparedness center at the University.

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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. These may be published separately in an academic journal. GNCSODR 2015. Mechler, R.,

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

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. Finally, we need to look at our human resources in disaster resilience.

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Deadly extreme weather is the new normal

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

This piece was originally published on May 23, 2019 in The Hill. . They are working to integrate preparedness into the whole community through increased preparedness, insurance coverage and other steps to help people prepare to enhance their resilience before a disaster strikes. We know what needs to be done.

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Executive Action Alone Won’t Save Us from Climate Change

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Although stopping short of declaring an emergency, he issued three executive orders expanding offshore wind, expanding heat emergency assistance for low-income households, and infusing FEMA’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities grant program with $2.3