From the National Academy of Sciences: The Action Collaborative on Disaster Research: Symposium on Disaster Data Science. Webcast on April 2nd.

Thanks to Dr. Lois Cohen for this citation.

From HS Today, this commentary on recent GAO report: Opportunities to Improve Federal Response, Recovery, and Mitigation Efforts. The author’s focus is on wildfires.

New GAO report: FEMA: Opportunities Exist to Address Mission Challenges and Increased Workload

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From HSToday: Slaying the Recovery Beast: Part 1 – The Need for Program Management in Disaster Recovery. This is a useful article on the essentials of the recovery process. One of the authors is a former FEMA Administrator.

Here is Part 2 of this article on the Basics of  Recovery: https://www.hstoday.us/featured/slaying-the-recovery-beast-part-ii-the-lifecycle-of-a-disaster/

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From Pets to Heroes: The Role of Animals in Disaster Response and Recovery.

From pets to heroes: The role of animals in disaster response and recovery

The Disaster Philanthropy Organization is hosting a webinar on Thursday, March 14, at 1 p.m. ET to explore the range of ways that animals and disasters intersect.

From Domestic Preparedness: A Foreign Government, Oprah, and Fires in Maui: The Impact of Misinformation on Community Resiliency – Domestic Preparedness. Written by Mark Posard and Jessica Jenson.

The authors not only document some of the senseless efforts to interfere with recovery in Maui, but also offer some constructive solutions for avoiding interference with information systems.

From Inside Climate News: One Year Later, Pennsylvanians Living Near the East Palestine Train Derailment Site Say They’re Still Sick – Inside Climate News

Fortunately this extraordinary history of emergency management in the U.S. is now available at no cost. See this chapter: Catastrophe Is Not the End but the Beginning: Two Centuries of Evolution in US Disaster Law and Policy. from The Cambridge Handbook of Disaster Law and Policy. S. Kuo, J. Marshall and R. Rowberry, eds.

https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/somas_articles/13/

Thanks to Donovan Finn for the citation.