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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

Review by Donald Watson, co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley 2011). AID, EPA, FEMA, and numerous international humanitarian and disaster relief organizations. More than twenty authors are represented in this timely book, edited by Alessandra Jerolleman and William L.

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

everbridge

In the period 2000 to 2019, there were 7,348 major recorded disaster events claiming 1.23 trillion in global economic losses,” according to a report conducted by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). million lives, affecting 4.2 billion people (many on more than one occasion) resulting in approximately US$2.97