by admin | Nov 29, 2018 | Books, Climate, Disaster, Disaster policy, Emergency Management, Geography, Natural Hazards, Public health, Public safety, Weather, Wildfire
Summarizing the major points from a densely factual book like Firestorm: How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future, by Edward Struzik (Island Press, 2018), is about as challenging as understanding precisely what is happening in the midst of a rapidly moving massive...
by admin | Nov 24, 2018 | Books, Careers, Climate, Disaster, Emergency Management, Environment, Natural Hazards, Public health, Public safety, Urban Planning
Just nine days ago, on November 15, I stood in front of two successive audiences of long-term health care practitioners to present workshops at a conference in Wisconsin Dells discussing, of all things, “Fundamentals of Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery.” Where,...
by admin | Nov 6, 2018 | Activism, Civil rights, Disaster, Disaster policy, Government, Housing, Natural Hazards, Public policy, Resilience, Urban Planning, Water, Wildfire
This post will be brief. Rather than ask you to read my thoughts, I want you to listen–hard. It has long been known among disaster recovery planners that lower-income citizens are considerably more vulnerable to disasters largely because of the marginal...
by admin | Oct 13, 2018 | Disaster, Disaster policy, Emergency Management, Floodplain management, Natural Hazards, Public health, Public safety, Resilience, Transportation, Urban Planning, Water, Weather, Wildfire
Explaining the frustrations of first responders in searching Mexico Beach, Florida, for survivors after Hurricane Michael, Brock Long, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, told Associated Press, “Very few people live to tell what it’s like to...
by admin | Oct 12, 2018 | Agriculture, Business, Disaster, Disaster policy, Floodplain management, Floodplain management, Government, History, Industry, Natural Hazards, Politics, Public health, Public policy, Public safety
It has been a few weeks of drought on this blog, but just the opposite in North Carolina, where Hurricane Florence dropped up to 30 inches of rain in some locations, and floods migrated downstream via numerous rivers to swamp cities both inland and near the coast....
by admin | Sep 6, 2018 | Books, Disaster, Floodplain management, Government, Homeless, Housing, Infrastructure, Natural Hazards, Transportation, Urban Planning, Water, Weather, Wildfire
We learn from disasters as we recover from them, but each disaster teaches slightly different things. Sometimes the lessons are significant and historic; in others, one community is learning what others already know or should have learned from their own past events....
