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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.

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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.

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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.

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

everbridge

This is what, in the climate environment, the World Meteorological Organization and Disaster Management Agencies at national Government levels are doing. An integrated CEM platform offers a holistic severe weather solution to groups charged with natural disaster management.

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Executive Action Alone Won’t Save Us from Climate Change

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

However, these programs are specifically written for disaster assistance – e.g., debris removal, restoration of damaged facilities, evacuation and sheltering etc. – not clean energy tax credits, clean transportation, or penalties for polluters.