Twenty years ago, Katrina taught America devastating lessons. The administration’s policies against strategizing to protect society’s most vulnerable are a recipe for a repeat. “Much like we see ...

Formulating a detailed recovery plan is the main aim of the entire IT disaster recovery (DR) planning project. It is in these plans that you will set out the detailed steps needed to recover your IT ...

[Photo: An aerial view of a house in Gilchrist, Texas, that survived the destruction of Hurricane Ike in September 2008. Courtesy of Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA.] Natural disasters are becoming more ...

See the text below that I read earlier this morning. Most of this is on the money in my book. I'm reading American Dunkirk: The Waterborne Evacuation of Manhattan on 9/11 by James M Kendra and Tricia ...

The National Disaster Management Centre (NDMC) has rejected calls from advocacy group Women For Change (WFC) to have gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF) declared a national disaster, saying the ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

Intervention to address disasters has evolved through time into a complex policy subsystem, and disaster policy is implemented through a set of functions known as emergency management and response.

The following is a guest post from Scott Cormier, VP of Emergency Management, Environment of Care and Safety at Medxcel Facilities Management. Natural disasters cause nearly 500 deaths annually in the ...