The Center for Disaster Philanthropy is hosting a webinar on August 19: Disaster in a Crisis Zone: Understanding the Impact of Haiti’s Earthquake/

From the WashPost, this article on a new research center in Omaha. It also provided a lot of details about the young women who heads the center. See:
Why Omaha: DHS bets on Nebraska as the future of terrorism research

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/omaha-counterterrorism-research-domestic-extremism/2021/08/14/73e4c786-f48b-11eb-83e7-06a8a299c310_story.html

[The Diva apologizes for the faulty link. This is an important article so I posted it as best I could.]

From Inside Climate News: The Repercussions of a Changing Climate, in 5 Devastating Charts. If news about the written part of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report didn’t alarm you, these five graphic depictions of warming’s impacts will.

From HSNW: Resilience: Small Towns Should Focus on Resilience.

With heatwaves, bushfires, and floods, small towns and their surrounding communities have confronted a combination of successive disasters fueled by climate change. And it’s predicted to only get worse. “So, the challenge for all of us, but particularly areas at increasing risk of climate-fueled disasters, is to get ahead of what’s coming,” says one expert. “We need to ask: what we can do to reduce or even prevent some of these disasters from happening?”

From HSNW: Resilience: How Have Communities Been Faring During COVID-19? And How Will Lessons Learned Inform Future Response and Planning?
Now may be a good time to examine the choices communities made during the last year to see how these approaches shape continued COVID-19 response and recovery and help build resilience for future pandemic response.

From Recovery to Resilience Conference
In Viriginia, upcoming conference, August 25-27.

GAO Slams DHS for Failing to Recognize Deteriorating Threat Environment that Led to Capitol Attack

From the CRS, this updated report (3 pp): Federal Assistance for Wildfire Response and Recovery

From FEMA: G0205 Recovery from Disaster: The Local Community , Role Revised Course Materials Now Available on the G Course Website for all State, Tribal Nation, and Territorial Training Managers

From the APA: Zoning and Disaster Recovery, by Donovan Finn, PhD. Article is a free download (8 pp).

Finn is the author of one of the chapters in the book U.S. Emergency Management in the 21st Century: From Disaster to Catastrophe, edited by Claire B. Rubin and Susan L. Cutter, 2020.