From the Preventionweb site: Community resilience framework: lessons from the field
Community Resilience Framework – international examples
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New Disaster Data Visualization Tool from FEMA
FEMA launches disaster dataviz tool
Thanks to a new data visualization tool from FEMA, citizens and local emergency managers can get a better understanding the relative risk and impact of disasters. The interactive tool maps historical disaster declaration data in an effort to help communities plan for disasters and understand assistance spending.
As part of the OpenFEMA initiative, the Federal Emergency Management Agency both released the raw historical data and made it available through interactive and readable maps.
“Global Risks: Pool Knowledge to Stem Losses from Disasters”
From Nature.com, an article by Susan Cutter et al: Global risks: Pool knowledge to stem losses from disasters. Public awareness, rigorous risk research and aligned targets will help policy-makers to increase resilience against natural hazards, say Susan L. Cutter and colleagues.
Interesting article that is well-worth reading.
British Columbia Earthquake Preparedness Report
From Disaster-Zone blog, by Eric Holdeman: British Columbia Earthquake Preparedness Report. The report is 70 pages.
Red Cross is in Deep Trouble
It is in trouble with its donors, with the general public, and with Congress apparently, over it rebuilding efforts in Haiti. First Pro Publica and now the NY Times have covered the story. See: The Red Cross and the Mystery of Its Haiti Aid
Update: Please read the comments for additional information on this hot topic.
The Diva is sympathetic to the Red Cross and in this case is just re-reporting articles from other media sources.
“Pope Blasts Global Warming Deniers”
The Washington Post reports on a leaked version of the Pope’s Thursday speech: See Pope Francis blasts global warming deniers in leaked draft of encyclical
A draft of a major environmental document by Pope Francis says “the bulk of global warming” is caused by human activity and calls on people — especially the world’s rich — to take steps to mitigate the damage by reducing consumption and reliance on fossil fuels.
In words likely to anger some of his conservative critics, the pope backs the science of climate change, saying “plenty of scientific studies point out that the last decades of global warming have been mostly caused by the great concentration of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxide and others) especially generated by human action.”
Update: article about scientists hoping the Pope’s words will help the cause: http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/06/17/us-pope-environment-usa-scientists-idINKBN0OX17W20150617
World Refugee Crisis – worst since WW II
Article from Guardian: Worst Refugee Crisis Since Second World War.
Article on the topic from the NYTimes.
Direct link to full report ( 35 pp).
Planned Relocations
Interesting news from the Brookings Institution: When protecting people from natural disasters and environmental change means relocating them.
Update: See the comments attached, from Larry Larson, former head of the ASFPM.
Major Report on Resilience After Superstorm Sandy
From fellow blogger, Eric Holdeman, his posting about a new report by Stephen Flynn et al., which he titled The Odds are Stacked Against Disaster Resilience.
Here is the direct link to the full report (111 pages): Bolstering Critical Infrastructure – Resilience After Superstorm Sandy
Update: a couple of serious researchers give this report high marks. Be sure to check it out.
” How Ready Are We?”
One does not usually think of the Census agency for data about personal preparedness, but this chart is interesting.
Update: I chatted with our local CERT coordinator, and we both find these numbers surprisingly high. Our experience working to train local citizens about disaster preparedness suggest the respondents are not acurately accessing their true state of readiness.
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