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Assessing Racial Equality in Disaster Management

Recovery Diva

From RAND: Assessing Racial Equity in Disaster Management. The RAND Corporation performed a literature review and exploratory study on racial equity, and how disasters can magnify the challenges already present for diverse community members. According to the report, the U.S.

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The Emergency Management Institute at 70

Recovery Diva

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.

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Reflections on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11: Where we have been and where we are headed in disaster management

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

It is also a time for us, particularly in the disaster preparedness community, to reflect on what has changed since 9/11 and what has not. The COVID-19 pandemic presented us with an unprecedented merger of international and domestic policy, priorities, and politics in many ways foreshadowed by the Ebola crisis of 2014.

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Photo essay: Training Nepalese monks and nuns in community emergency response 

Crisis Response Journal

Dr Behrouz Moghadasi, who has been training volunteers in disaster management across Nepal, presents some images of the Khoryug Nepal Project, which involved training 40 individuals from eight monasteries in Nepal in CERT. By Dr Behrouz Moghadasi

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Sierra Leone - moving on to recovery 

Crisis Response Journal

Editorial Advisory Panel Member Robert McAlister, who is in Sierra Leone with the Director of Bournemouth University’s Disaster Management Centre, presents his fourth blog, which looks at recovery efforts. By Robert McAlister,

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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

The chapter is an essential read for emergency managers pursuing the priority topic, how to prepare for multiple overlapping disasters. In Chapter 5, “Federal Indian Policy and the Fulfillment of the Trust Responsibility for Disaster Management in Indian Country,” Samantha J. How do we do them?

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Community Emergency Managers: Maximize Impact with B.C.’s New Indigenous Engagement Funding

CCEM Strategies

s new Emergency and Disaster Management Act (EDMA) was passed, replacing the previous Emergency Program Act. With this new legislation comes substantial new requirements for community emergency managers – many relating to Indigenous engagement. New Legislation, New Requirements, New Funding On November 8, 2023, B.C.’s