One Current Take on FEMA
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MARCH 17, 2024
From Gov.Exec.com: Lawmakers debate the role of an overworked and under-resourced FEMA. Despite some hiring success, FEMA is taking on more tasks while operating at 65% capacity.
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Recovery Diva
MARCH 17, 2024
From Gov.Exec.com: Lawmakers debate the role of an overworked and under-resourced FEMA. Despite some hiring success, FEMA is taking on more tasks while operating at 65% capacity.
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MARCH 16, 2024
From the National Academy of Sciences: The Action Collaborative on Disaster Research: Symposium on Disaster Data Science Thanks to Dr. Lois Cohen for this citation.
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MARCH 6, 2024
In partnership with FEMA, the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers (RCI), will host a webinar on Thursday, March 7 , from 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. EST for caregivers and communities to introduce the “ Disaster Preparedness Guide for Caregivers ” and provide opportunity to learn how the guide addresses the unique challenges faced by caregivers and offers practical solutions to ensure the safety and well-being of both caregivers and care recipients in the event of a disaster.Webinar
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FEBRUARY 28, 2024
From Pets to Heroes: The Role of Animals in Disaster Response and Recovery. From pets to heroes: The role of animals in disaster response and recovery The Disaster Philanthropy Organization is hosting a webinar on Thursday, March 14, at 1 p.m. ET to explore the range of ways that animals and disasters intersect.
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FEBRUARY 27, 2024
From Domestic Preparedness: A Foreign Government, Oprah, and Fires in Maui: The Impact of Misinformation on Community Resiliency – Domestic Preparedness. Written by Mark Posard and Jessica Jenson.
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FEBRUARY 26, 2024
One Year Later, Pennsylvanians Living Near the East Palestine Train Derailment Site Say They’re Still Sick From Inside Climate News: One Year Later, Pennsylvanians Living Near the East Palestine Train Derailment Site Say They’re Still Sick – Inside Climate News
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FEBRUARY 23, 2024
See this chapter: Catastrophe Is Not the End but the Beginning: Two Centuries of Evolution in US Disaster Law and Policy. from The Cambridge Handbook of Disaster Law and Policy. S. Kuo, J. Marshall and R. Rowberry, eds. [link] Thanks to Donovan Finn for the citation.
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FEBRUARY 19, 2024
From CNN: Nearly the entire population of California remains under flood alerts as people are urged to stay off the roads. Quite a remarkable phenomenon.
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FEBRUARY 15, 2024
From the NYTimes, this Interesting interactive article: The East Coast Is Sinking. New satellite-based research reveals how land along the coast is slumping into the ocean, compounding the danger from global sea level rise. A major culprit: overpumping of groundwater.
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JANUARY 26, 2024
From HSNW: Where Damaging Earthquakes Are Mo st Likely to Occur in U.S Scientists recently revealed the latest National Seismic Hazard Model, showing that nearly 75% of the United States could experience a damaging earthquake, emphasizing seismic hazards span a significant part of the country.
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JANUARY 24, 2024
[link] An excerpt: “AI is a valuable tool for DHS due to the incredible volume of data and information collected, stored, and shared on a daily basis. DHS can use AI to extract actionable insights from these troves of information. In turn, the DHS workforce is better equipped to make informed decisions quickly, so issues are resolved promptly.
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JANUARY 22, 2024
From HSNW, This report from the National Academy of Sciences: MANAGED RETREAT; Proactively Planning for Community Relocation Before and After Climate Disasters “Between 1980 and mid-2023, 232 billion-dollar disasters occurred in the U.S. Gulf Coast region, with the number of disasters doubling annually since 2018.
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JANUARY 17, 2024
FEMA is hosting a webinar series for the newly released Achieving Equitable Recovery: A Post-Disaster Guide for Local Officials and Leaders (“Equity Guide”). Webinars will be held: Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2 to 3 p.m. Eastern Time Wednesday, Jan. 31, 7 to 8 p.m. Eastern Time Tuesday, Feb. 13, noon to 1 p.m., Eastern Time The goal of the Equity Guide is to help local officials and leaders incorporate diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (“DEIA”) in their post-disaster recovery management
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JANUARY 12, 2024
From HSToday this article re AI and Advanced TechCybersecurity NIST Identifies Types of Cyberattacks That Manipulate Behavior of AI System s Publication lays out “adversarial machine learning” threats, describing mitigation strategies and their limitations.
Recovery Diva
JANUARY 10, 2024
From CNN Business: World Economic Forum risks report sees a ‘global catastrophe’ within 10 years. Another rather alarming forecast. For those of us concerned with recovery from disasters, it is best to be informed about what is coming.
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JANUARY 10, 2024
From The Conversation: 2023’s billion-dollar disasters list shattered the US record with 28 big weather and climate disasters amid Earth’s hottest year on record.
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JANUARY 4, 2024
From NYC to D.C. and Beyond, Cities on the East Coast Are Sinking. “Major cities on the U.S. Atlantic coast are sinking, in some cases as much as 5 millimeters per year – a decline at the ocean’s edge that well outpaces global sea level rise. Particularly hard hit population centers such as New York City and Long Island, Baltimore, and Virginia Beach and Norfolk are seeing areas of rapid “subsidence,” or sinking land, alongside more slowly sinking or relatively stable ground, increasing th
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JANUARY 3, 2024
Translated article from the South Korean newspaper The Segye Times , written by reporter Yeongjun Park from; published in Dec. 2023. “The nature and components of disasters vary widely, requiring training and ongoing education of key personnel.” Claire Rubin, a researcher who works as a disaster prevention consultant in the U.S., emphasized training and education as an iteration of responding to various disasters on Sept. 26 (local time).
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DECEMBER 29, 2023
New Congressional Research Service report: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Hazard Mitigation Assistance.
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DECEMBER 18, 2023
From the Guardian: Survivors of deadly Maui blaze face displacement after displacement: ‘I live a nomadic life’ An excerpt: “The deadliest US wildfire in more than a century – which incinerated the historic town of Lahaina, killed 100 people and destroyed 3% of Maui’s residential housing stock – pushed the island’s longstanding affordable housing crisis to a new inflection point.
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DECEMBER 12, 2023
FEMA is seeking feedback on the draft guide “Climate Adaptation Planning for Emergency Managers.” FEMA is seeking feedback on the draft guide “Climate Adaptation Planning for Emergency Managers.” The guide helps emergency managers incorporate climate adaptation into emergency management planning efforts.
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DECEMBER 8, 2023
The Emergency Management Institute at 70;From Civil Defense to Emergency Management in an Education and Training Institution. This report traces the 70-year history of the Emergency Management Institute (EMI) from the founding of its predecessor in 1951 to the present. The story of these institutions’ development can inform current strategy about EMI’s future.
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NOVEMBER 28, 2023
FEMA has published Achieving Equitable Recovery: A Post-Disaster Guide for Local Officials and Leaders , a first of its kind framework to help rebuild communities in a more accessible, inclusive and equitable manner. (144 pp). November 2023. This document provides guidance for local leaders and officials to understand, prepare for and execute their leadership responsibilities to promote equity, create accountability, establish an inclusive recovery planning process and recover from disasters whi
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NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Planning Considerations for Cyber Incidents; Guidance for Emergency Managers. (57 pp).November 2023. The purpose of the document follows: Emergency management personnel play a central role in preparing for and responding to cyber incidents in their jurisdictions. Although emergency managers are not expected to be technical experts on cyber incidents, they do need to understand and prepare for the potential impacts of a cyber incident on their communities as well as on their emergency operations.
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NOVEMBER 21, 2023
From the HSDL: Ecological Threat Report 2023 The Institute for Economics & Peace‘s Ecological Threat Report (ETR) is a “comprehensive, data-driven analysis” that covers 99.9% of the global population, analyzing food insecurity, water risk, demographic pressures, and natural disasters for 221 countries and territories. This fourth edition, Ecological Threat Report 2023, is divided into five sections: 1) Results and Trends; 2) Ecological Threats; 3) Conflict, Climate and Ecological Threats; 4)
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NOVEMBER 20, 2023
From The Hill: Puerto Rico raises alarms as FEMA ends power generation mission Puerto Rico raises alarms as FEMA ends power generation mission
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NOVEMBER 14, 2023
From HSNews: Record Number of 25 Billion Dollar Disasters in 2023 So Far. NOAA confirmed another billion-dollar disaster in October, bringing the total to a record 25 disasters in the first 10 months — the largest number of disasters for any year since NOAA has kept track of these types of events. The Mississippi River’s water level dropped to historic lows along parts of the river.
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NOVEMBER 10, 2023
From The Conversation: How the pandemic permanently altered college towns
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OCTOBER 28, 2023
From the NY Times, this Opinion Piece: The American Disaster Recovery System is a Disaster.
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OCTOBER 15, 2023
From the NYTimes: Falsehoods Follow Close Behind This Summer’s Natural Disasters “Misattributed videos, recycled lies and warped fears are fueling unfounded claims about the recent record-breaking heat, floods and wildfires.
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OCTOBER 13, 2023
From the Conversation: 3 powerful earthquakes strike Afghanistan in one week – here’s how people around the world prepare for disasters “The terrible devastation caused by the three 6.3 magnitude earthquakes in Afghanistan is the result of the presence of centuries-old historic buildings and the continued use of old construction methods, such as clay bricks and unreinforced masonry.
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OCTOBER 2, 2023
From the WashPost: Inside the complex effort to rid Maui of toxic fire debris and rubble One of the most complicated wildfire cleanup missions in recent memory is now underway on the Hawaiian island of Maui, where fleets of workers and equipment are being shipped to the island while officials plot how to carefully but quickly remove hundreds of thousands of tons of toxic debris.
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SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
From the Congressional Research Service, this report ( 24 pp) on Emergency Relief Program for Disaster-Damaged Highways and Bridges
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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
From The Hill: Lawmakers unveil bipartisan measure making FEMA its own Cabinet-level agency Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) and Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.) introduced bipartisan legislation Wednesday that would make the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) its own Cabinet-level department, elevating its importance as natural disasters regularly thrust it into the national spotlight.
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AUGUST 29, 2023
(1) From CNN: FEMA announces $3 billion for climate resiliency as time runs low for Congress to replenish its disaster fund. “In a record-breaking year of disasters, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is announcing nearly $3 billion Monday for communities to build resiliency against climate change-fueled extreme weather. The new money, which will come from Congress’s bipartisan infrastructure law passed last year, is being announced just as the agency is running out of disaster-relief
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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
From the WashPost: Biden seeks $16 billion in disaster aid as Idalia, wildfires deplete federal funds.
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AUGUST 27, 2023
From FEMA: Guidance on Extreme Temperatures for State, Local, Tribal and Territorial Leaders. Extreme Temperatures Are Adversely Affecting People’s Lives FROM HSToday: DHS Offers Community Leaders New Resources to Prepare for Extreme Temperature Events as 17 States Experience Record Breaking Heat.
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AUGUST 23, 2023
From Homeland Security News Wire: Hurricanes Have Become Deadlier, Especially for Socially Vulnerable. “In our study, excess death counts after tropical cyclones were higher more recently and for the most socially vulnerable,” said Robbie M. Parks, PhD, assistant professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia Public Health, and first author.
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AUGUST 21, 2023
From Forbes: How FEMA And California Have Prepared For Hurricane Hilary. August 21.
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AUGUST 18, 2023
From CNN: In a record year of catastrophes, From CNN: In a record year of catastrophes, FEMA’s disaster fund is slipping into the red before hurricane season even peaks.
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AUGUST 19, 2023
From Politico: President Joe Biden hasn’t launched a Maui fire investigation. Here’s why. While the White House defers to Hawaii on a formal probe, Congress holds the key to forcing scrutiny from the feds. “The Biden administration has promised billions of dollars to help Hawaii recover from its deadly wildfires this month — but not a federal investigation into what went wrong.
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AUGUST 15, 2023
New Report from Brookings: The U.S. Needs a New System for Declaring Natural Disasters and Distributing Federal Aid. (July 2023). Report is 20 pages. { Note this report was issued in July, well before the Maui disaster.} Comments are invited.
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AUGUST 10, 2023
Book Review: Disaster Management and Information Technology: Professional Response and Recovery Management in the Age of Disasters. Editors: Hans Jochen Scholl, Eric E. Holdeman, F. Kees Boersma. Published by Springer Publishers; ISBN-10 3031209389; Price is $100. Content : A comprehensive guide to the multifaceted world of disaster management, seamlessly integrated with modern technology.
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