Recovery Diva

MAY 12, 2022

Chapter 4 “Lessons from Co-occuring Disasters: COVOID-19 and Eight Hurricanes”by Alessandra Jerolleman, Shirley Laska and Julie Torres is a complimentary review of Louisiana government leaders and emergency managers responses to a set of simultaneous disasters: global pandemic and an “epidemic” of landfalling hurricanes during the 2020 season.

Management 113

Management All-Hazards Transportation Disaster Recovery 113

Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

It is salutary to reflect that many of those scholars who have studied this disaster are too young to have experienced it. The year 1980 was something of a watershed in the field of disaster risk reduction (or disaster management as it was then known). For the local economy, all was not lost, or not quite all.

Natural Hazard 130

Natural Hazard All-Hazards Automotive Risk Reduction 130

everbridge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The report “The Human Cost of Disasters 2000-2019” also records major increases in other categories including drought, wildfires , and extreme temperature events. There has also been a rise in geophysical events including earthquakes and tsunamis which have killed more people than any of the other natural hazards under review in this report.

Resilience 142

Resilience Risk Reduction Management Command Center 142