Recovery Diva

OCTOBER 19, 2024

“The upshot is that FEMA flood hazard maps that determine coverage today rely on outdated information so inaccurate that more than 40 percent of NFIP claims made from 2017 to 2019 were for properties outside official flood hazard zones or in areas the agency had not mapped at all.”

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All-Hazards Hazard Insurance Insurance 100

Recovery Diva

MAY 5, 2022

Researchers say individuals should respond to the hazard most pressing at the time and prepare to move locations if necessary. From the WashPost: A tornado and flood are coming your way: Take cover or move higher?

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Hazard 100

Recovery Diva

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

From the Congressional Research Service, this 32 page report: FEMA Hazard Mitigation: A First Step Toward Climate Adaptation.

Hazard 100

Hazard Mitigation 100

National Fire Protection Association

AUGUST 12, 2022

Hazardous materials are those chemicals or substances that are classified as a physical hazard material or a health hazard material (see this blog for more information). There's often some confusion around what the appropriate occupancy classification is when hazardous materials are present.

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Hazard All-Hazards Manufacturing Mitigation 104

Recovery Diva

MARCH 25, 2022

/From the Congressional Research Service this updated 32 page report: FEMA Hazard Mitigation: A First Step Toward Climate Adaptation.

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Hazard Mitigation 100

Recovery Diva

DECEMBER 29, 2023

New Congressional Research Service report: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Hazard Mitigation Assistance. (4

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Hazard Mitigation Management 100

Recovery Diva

OCTOBER 28, 2021

FEMA Flood Maps: Better Planning and Analysis Needed to Address Current and Future Flood Hazards. GAO-22-104079.

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Hazard 100

Recovery Diva

AUGUST 17, 2022

From the CRS, this new (19 page) report: Hazard-Resilient Buildings: Sustaining Occupancy and Function After a Natural Disaster.

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Hazard Resilience 100

National Fire Protection Association

JULY 7, 2022

Which code or standard applies to hazardous materials? How much of a particular hazardous material can be stored or used? What floor of the building can that hazardous material be stored or used on? These are all questions some are faced with daily.

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Hazard All-Hazards Management 103

Emergency Planning

MARCH 3, 2025

There have recently been some natural hazard events of extraordinary size and power, but they are no more than curtain raisers. Natural hazard impacts are becoming fiercer, more extensive and more frequent. We must also grapple with complexity and intersection with other forms of threat and hazard.

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All-Hazards Natural Hazard Hazard Risk Reduction 130

Recovery Diva

MARCH 30, 2023

From the HSDL: Hazard Mitigation Assistance Program and Policy Guide Released. FEMA has released the 2023 Hazard Mitigation Assistance Program and Policy Guide (HMA Guide). This is an updated version of an existing document.

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Hazard Mitigation Activation Resilience 100

Recovery Diva

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Just out, this 5 page report from the Congressional Research Service: Recent Funding Increases for FEMA Hazard Mitigation Assistance.

Hazard 100

Hazard Mitigation 100

DisasterDoc

JUNE 28, 2021

Building collapse is a common phenomenon associated with multiple disasters, including those caused by so-called “natural hazards” such as earthquakes and tsunamis and landslides, as well as “technological hazards” such. The post When Buildings Collapse appeared first on DisasterDoc.

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Natural Hazard Hazard Technology 221

Recovery Diva

DECEMBER 14, 2023

TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT: Artificial Intelligence in Natural Hazard Modeling Severe Storms, Hurricanes, Floods, and Wildfire. Note that the full report is 61 pp. The Diva considers this a must read for people in the emergency management field and expects that this subject will be an important one in 2024.

Natural Hazard 100

Natural Hazard Hazard Technology Management 100

Recovery Diva

DECEMBER 1, 2023

For nearly 50 years, the Natural Hazards Center has played an especially important role in both advancing new disaster research and translating it for practitioners and policymakers.” These are issues that are central to the work of CU researchers in IBS and across the university, including in engineering and the physical sciences.

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Hazard Natural Hazard Vulnerability Communications 100

Recovery Diva

JULY 27, 2023

For many of us the annual conference of the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado/Boulder was a “must attend” event for many years.

Natural Hazard 100

Natural Hazard Hazard Vulnerability Mitigation 100

Recovery Diva

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

An in-depth article by the WashPost. The ring in the ashes.Why FEMA’s billion-dollar program to prevent disasters failed to save Mount Olive Road. Be sure to see the segment titled : What’s the Wait.

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Hazard Mitigation 113

Emergency Planning

AUGUST 3, 2023

The new version presents 89 major hazards and threats that could potentially disrupt life in the United Kingdom and possibly cause casualties and damage. Hence, the risk register largely discusses hazards and threats, not risks sensu stricto. (c) This is particularly important for those hazards associated with climate change.

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All-Hazards Natural Hazard Hazard Government 204

Disaster Zone

MAY 9, 2023

Another hazard that you need to know about—The Sun!

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Hazard 203

National Fire Protection Association

DECEMBER 2, 2021

There are a lot of benefits that energy storage systems (ESS) can provide, but along with those benefits come some hazards that need to be considered. This blog will talk about a handful of hazards that are unique to energy storage systems as well as the failure modes that can lead to those. [[ This is a content summary only.

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Hazard 77

DRI Drive

OCTOBER 25, 2023

While the supply chain is markedly more stable than in recent COVID-impacted years, the lingering effects – along with new hazards brought by national and global events – still make for a challenging end to 2023.

Retail 221

Retail Hazard 221

DRI Drive

JUNE 8, 2023

Northeast are digging out their N-95 masks to cope with the hazardous atmosphere brought on by wildfires in Canada. Millions in the U.S. Canada’s eastern provinces are dealing with the worst-ever start to wildfire season, with about 9.4 million acres already lost – 15 times the average.

Hazard 221

Hazard 221

Recovery Diva

JANUARY 20, 2025

While emerging threats and hazards will test us as a nation, our collective efforts across the whole community will drive our progress toward a safer, more resilient future, said FEMA Administrator Criswell.

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All-Hazards Hazard Cybersecurity Resilience 100

Disaster Zone

APRIL 5, 2022

The mitigation experience profile is rising!

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Mitigation Hazard 113

Emergency Planning

MARCH 23, 2022

Safety’ refers to protection against major hazards such as storms, floods and industrial explosions. It is the responsibility of all citizens to consider, as far as they are able, their relationship with hazards and threats. Security’ involves protection against major threats, such as terrorist activity. Plans should be networked.

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Resilience All-Hazards Emergency Planning Hazard 244

Disaster Zone Podcast

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

During the podcast several video productions focusing on volcanoes were mentioned.Here is the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History Global Volcanism Program for the VolFilm Episodes: [link] And specifically the ones produced in English language: Human Experiences with Lava Flows [link] Debris Avalanches and Landslides [link] Health (..)

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Corporate Governance All-Hazards Hazard Education 130

Disaster Zone

JULY 11, 2023

Learn about the hazards and the organization charged with all aspects of emergency management.

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All-Hazards Hazard Management 189

Recovery Diva

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Emergency managers have been asked to respond to a growing number of hazards and disasters, including nontraditional missions, such as managing pandemic response and addressing homelessness. It also trains some federal officials and leaders in the nonprofit and private sectors and provides course materials for higher education.

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All-Hazards Management Hazard Education 188

Disaster Zone

AUGUST 29, 2023

This is what is happening and likely will happen more in the future.

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Hazard Insurance Insurance 100

Recovery Diva

JUNE 21, 2022

Thanks to Lori Peek, Director of the Hazards Center at the University of CO/Boulder, for providing this link to a source of information about new books in the field of emergency management. She noted the New Reads series for a quick download on new publications. And she noted that they always welcome new submissions: [link].

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Hazard Management 189

Disaster Zone

MAY 27, 2022

They are common enough that mass shootings should be listed.

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Hazard 113

Disaster Zone

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

If you are transporting petroleum products—pipelines is safer.

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Transportation Hazard 113

Disaster Zone

JULY 23, 2022

Heat, wildfires and wildfire smoke are impacting communities.

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Hazard 113

Recovery Diva

JUNE 22, 2022

The Dash is a fantastic opportunity to participate in a virtual 5k walk/run, with the proceeds going to support the Bill Anderson Fund’s (BAF) mission to expand the number of historically underrepresented minority professionals in the fields of hazards and disaster research, policy, and practice.

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Hazard Activation Management 189

Disaster Zone

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Omicron is the latest new pandemic hazard.

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Hazard Pandemic 147

Disaster Zone

JUNE 26, 2023

A good and challenging position.

Hazard 100

Hazard Mitigation 100

Recovery Diva

APRIL 12, 2023

This way the reader is given a roadmap to pick and choose from, if they wish so, the case studies written by various authors whose chapters span a wide variety of hazards as well as geographical and sociological settings all of which delve into a chosen aspect of disaster recovery towards building resiliency.

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Disaster Recovery All-Hazards Hazard Disaster Management 188