Hazard Mitigation Natural Hazard 
Recovery Diva
JULY 27, 2023
For many of us the annual conference of the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado/Boulder was a “must attend” event for many years.
National Center for Disaster Prepardness
MAY 12, 2021
state develops a hazard mitigation plan, which identifies top local risks and provides a framework for long term strategies to reduce risk and protect citizens and property from damage. 8 states/territories mention pandemic planning but do not discuss further how the state or agency will be able to mitigate the hazard from the event.
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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". Each new disaster reveals the shortcomings of hazard mitigation and disaster preparedness. Powerful floods struck Puerto Lumbreras again in 2012. Why has this not solved the problem?
Disaster Zone Podcast
MARCH 22, 2022
One significant natural hazard risk that the West Coast of the United States has comes from tsunamis. We also delve into what individuals and organizations can to be warned of an oncoming tsunami and what mitigation measures are being used to reduce the destructive impacts of these waves.
Recovery Diva
DECEMBER 30, 2021
From the American Society of Civil Engineers, Wind Hazard Damage Assessment Group: The StEER report on timpacts from 10 December 2021 tornado outbreak and accompanying media repository can be accessed below. Washington Post Guest Essay: Prevatt (2021) “We can build houses to survive tornadoes like Kentucky suffered. We just haven’t.”
Emergency Planning
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 931-945. Natural Hazards 109: 161-200. A view on how to mitigate earthquake damages in Turkey from a civil engineering perspective. Select Bibliography of Sources on Turkish R/C Construction Practices Cogurcu, M.T. Ecemis, S.Z. Korkmaz, M.H. Arslan and H.H. Ozmen, H.B.
everbridge
MAY 13, 2022
As severe weather continues to threaten more people and cause greater harm, building resilience against natural hazards and climate threats is paramount: the time for governments and enterprises to act is now. What steps can governments take to mitigate climate risk and severe weather events? Severe Weather Trends.
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