GAO Blog: Contracting for Disaster Response and Recovery Services

From GovTech: ‘California Roadmap’ Aims to Develop Community Resiliency. The roadmap outlines investment in whole community preparedness and how those investments can help get the nonprofit, faith-based, public and private sectors to collaborate better to develop resilient communities.

Worth thinking about:
Scientists warn Oregon is lagging in disaster preparedness

Article from the NY Times re eliminating prohibition on new public buildings in tsunami inundation zones.  Oregon’s Tsunami Risk: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. Thanks to Chris Jones for this citation.

How Intelligence Can Map Wildfire Risk and Help Reduce Catastrophes

Managing wildfire risk requires actions at all phases of disaster management: prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. In addition, all phases of action have tactical, operational, strategic and financial/economic dimensions. As an example, hazard and risk data informs a range of decisions at all phases including evacuation decisions (choosing proper protective actions such as evacuation, in-place protection, or mixed strategies), resource allocation decisions and land use (zoning) decisions, in addition to tactical decisions regarding incident management. The lending investment and insurance markets respond to how hazards and risks are well or poorly anticipated and managed.

From Science Daily: Coping skills program helps social service workers reduce stress, trauma after disasters

FEMA Has Taken Steps toward Better Supporting Individuals Who Are Older or Have Disabilities

From HSToday: How States Are Changing the Face of Emergency Management

From the NY Times: As Storm Season Begins in the United States, FEMA Is Already Stretched Thin

• From the Climate Center, this handbook titled Heatwave Guide for Cities. It is 96 pages.
• See also this report (40 pp) by the Union of Concerned Scientists: Killer Heat in the United States; Climate Choices and the Future of Dangerously Hot Days. The analysis focuses on the effects of rising temperatures in the United States, and the potential dangers of staying on our current trends.

From HS Newswire: U.S. Coastal Communities Face More than $400 Billion in Seawall Costs by 2040