It sounds like a contradiction in terms, but disaster and disruption management is a thing. Disaster and disruption are precisely what ensues when catastrophic natural events occur, and unfortunately, ...

Many emergency managers have long since recognized that as the nation continues to respond to disaster after disaster, most of them climate related, it’s past time to look at managing disasters from ...

I’m not sure whether COVID-19, first identified in Wuhan, China, in the U.S. qualifies as a true disaster. Putting the disease in perspective, we might look at current influenza illnesses. According ...

I’m not sure whether covid-19, first identified in Wuhan, China, in the U.S. qualifies as a true disaster. Putting the disease in perspective, we might look at current influenza illnesses. But let’s ...

LIKE A BAD horror movie in which the villain keeps coming back, Hurricane Rita, the 18th storm of the season, is spinning toward an inevitable rendezvous with the Gulf Coast. We’ve already seen more ...

The establishment of a national disaster management council, proposed by Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid ...

Following on the success of Landesman's original Public Health Management of Disasters is the 2nd edition of The Practice Guide. The book provides 13 chapters and 20 appendices chock-full of useful ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A district-level training programme for NSS volunteers commenced at the Maria Rani Centre, Sreekaryam, on ...

SENDAI, Japan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Typhoon Haiyan sent storm surges and high winds across the islands of the central Philippines in November 2013, it wrecked homes, schools, hospitals ...

The Apollo Lunar Module at the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Source: Ilan Kelman Humanity’s wanderlust has covered the Earth and now extends ...

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