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EP17: Building My Own Online BIA App | Michelle Marx

The Failover Plan Podcast

We’re speaking with Michelle Marx, who is the Resilience and Business Continuity Manager at Transport for London. . Guest Bio: Michelle is an experienced resilience professional who specializes in business continuity, major incident management, policy development, and strategy. Links: M Marx Linkedin Profile.

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

everbridge

Disaster risk is becoming systemic with one event overlapping and influencing another in ways that are testing our resilience to the limit,” Mizutori said. The odds are being stacked against us when we fail to act on science and early warnings to invest in prevention, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction.”.

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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management. 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. Emerald Publishing Ltd.

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Executive Action Alone Won’t Save Us from Climate Change

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Although stopping short of declaring an emergency, he issued three executive orders expanding offshore wind, expanding heat emergency assistance for low-income households, and infusing FEMA’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities grant program with $2.3

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Common Misconceptions about Disaster

Emergency Planning

Myth 20: Field hospitals are particularly useful for treating people injured by sudden impact disasters. Reality: There are so many potential pathogens, agents and isotopes that high-level laboratory analysis way be needed, which would cause problems of transportation of samples and rapidity of analyses. Men are better.