Preparation for the unknown was always in Alan Harris’s job description as emergency manager for Seminole County, Florida, ...

Natural hazard” and “natural disaster” aren’t the same. Hazards are events. Disasters are their consequences, shaped by human choices and vulnerabilities. Misusing the terms blurs accountability, ...

Preparation can spare you time and stress if your personal identification papers are lost after a wildfire or other natural ...

The major players in the Natural Disaster Management Market are NEC (Japan), Hexagon (Sweden), Nokia (Finland), Xylem (US), Esri (US), Everbridge (US), Blackberry ...

Dublin, March 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Natural Disaster Management Market by Solution (Seismic Warning & Monitoring Systems, Flood Beacons, Lightning Detectors), Application (Volcano ...

Following on the success of Landesman's original Public Health Management of Disasters is the 2nd edition of The Practice Guide. The book provides 13 chapters and 20 appendices chock-full of ...

local governments are at the forefront of natural disaster management. They are closest to the residents and face a lot of ...

But emergency management experts say Trump's order technically wouldn't do much to shift responsibility. Currently, local and state governments are already in charge of disasters. The question is ...

We conducted a scoping review of literature published between 1974 and 2020 to understand the burden and management of chronic NCDs in the Caribbean after natural disasters. Of the twenty-nine ...

Federal Emergency Management Agency employees are trained to respond to disasters, but have struggled this spring with the situation unfolding at their agency. While they've been deployed to ...