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Comment on Human Cognitive Performance Suffers After Natural Disasters by recoverydiva

recoverydiva — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:33:02 +0000

Hello Art: thanks for the insightful comments.

The study is worrisome because it has such a small sample. The topic does need more attention.

Claire

Comment on Human Cognitive Performance Suffers After Natural Disasters by Art Botterell

Art Botterell — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:46:57 +0000

It’s a bit of a truism of emergency response that “stress makes you stupid.” Good to see that addressed in more rigorous terms!

However, we may want to keep an eye on how these findings are used, especially when they’re reduced to PowerPoint bullets. It might be tempting for some to adopt them as a rationale for elitism and/or paternalism.

We’ll need to bear in mind that, a) responders, disaster managers and senior officials are subject to the same psychological effects, and b) our task is to support and restore the competency of disaster survivors, not to substitute our own.

Comment on Human Cognitive Performance Suffers After Natural Disasters by Ryan Alaniz

Ryan Alaniz — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:52:07 +0000

This is a great article.

Thanks for sharing Claire.

Comment on Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning- 2nd posting by Jono A. Anzalone

Jono A. Anzalone — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:24:21 +0000

Thank you! Great use of UASI funds.

Comment on Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning- 2nd posting by recoverydiva

recoverydiva — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:45:56 +0000

No, it was UASI money.

Comment on Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning- 2nd posting by Jono A. Anzalone

Jono A. Anzalone — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:46:53 +0000

How cool! Any guesses which Federal grant they used to pay for the planning? EMPG?

Comment on Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning- 2nd posting by Jono A. Anzalone

Jono A. Anzalone — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:46:33 +0000

How cool! Any guesses which Federal grant they used to pay for the planning? EMPG?

Comment on Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning- 2nd posting by Bob Zimmerman

Bob Zimmerman — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:38:44 +0000

It will be interesting to learn how they (the County) plans to pay for recovery.

Comment on How not to do seismic safety by John Plodinec

John Plodinec — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:02:29 +0000

There was an excellent presentation re the likelihood of urban earthquakes by a representative of the World Bank at the recent International Disaster Conference and Expo in New Orleans. The speaker made two important points:
• Just as coastal disasters are more likely because we are building on our coasts, urban earthquakes are more likely because more and more cities are located on faults. He cited Khartoum, and several of the new Chinese mega-cities as examples.
• We haven’t learned how to tailor our humanitarian response to urban earthquakes as well as we have some other types of disasters.
I’ll be posting a blog on the meeting next week on the CARRI site (blog.resilientus.org).

Comment on About blogging by Patrice Cloutier (@patricecloutier)

Patrice Cloutier (@patricecloutier) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:44:49 +0000

I disagree … blog posts are often filled with more understanding of an issue and insight than many other forms of written communications … blogs and micro-blogs also have this advantage: people read them … they’re short … no one reads dissertations anymore … so if nobody reads a paper …it might as well not exist …