The webmaster is Claire B. Rubin; her company website is Claire B. Rubin & Associates. She has more than 45 years of experience in the fields of emergency management and homeland security. She has maintained this blog for 13 years.
She blogs as as the “Recovery Diva” to call attention to the long-term recovery process after disasters. The blog is intended to provide informal educational resources for both researchers and practitioners. The postings contain information about current disaster events, news (such as newly-released reports from government agencies), comments, opinions, and an occasional burst of outrage.
Two unusual features of this blog: (1) book reviews and (2) an archive of articles, done semi-annually, to make it more useful to researchers.
More About The Diva:
- From the Natural Hazards Center at the University of CO, March 2025, this article about the legacy of Claire Rubin: Student Volunteers Carry Claire Rubin’s Legacy Forward.
- Podcast titled Retired From a Paycheck on Disaster-Zone.com; August 18, 2023
- Interview with The Diva. Center for Disaster Philanthropy, Oct 18, 2017.
RELATED ENDEAVORS:
- Ms Rubin is one of the editors of the 2nd edition of U.S. Emergency Management in the 21st Century, due to be published in 2025.
- Ms Rubin is the editor of the new 3rd edition of Emergency Management, the American Experience,1900-2010, published by CRC Press.
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Claire B. Rubin
The Recovery Diva
Falls Church, VA
Email: cbrubin@yahoo.com
FAVORITE QUOTES:
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. [E.O. Wilson Pulitzer Prize winner, author, and ecologist at Harvard University]
“Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.” [Gates of Repentance, p. 331]
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