Prepare, mitigate, respond, recover. It’s a cycle I have been through thousands of times. Navigating hundreds of disasters and crises ranging from small to seemingly impossible is all part of the job ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — State Sen. Rusty Crowe (R-Johnson City) and Rep. Rebecca Alexander (R-Jonesborough) have been working on legislation to streamline the Tennessee Emergency Management ...

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.

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. No person or place is immune from disasters or disaster-related losses. Infectious ...

When the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s urban search and rescue team resigned after the deadly July 4, 2025, Texas floods, he told colleagues he was frustrated with bureaucratic ...

Between 2019 and 2020, Southeast Asia reported 530 natural hazards — from earthquakes to cyclones and floods. COVID-19 has significantly heightened the financial constraints on the disaster management ...

The countries of the Central American region and the Dominican Republic are highly vulnerable and exposed to all types of natural hazards, which have intensified due to the effects of climate change.

A new peer-reviewed article published in Big Earth Data highlights the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) in disaster management. The study ...

The Homeland Security secretary and others warn that consultants are slowing recovery projects potentially to “maximize billable hours.” Consultants that help states navigate the complex process of ...

The National People’s Power (NPP) Government assumed office under exceptionally difficult circumstances. It inherited an economy that had been driven to collapse by the policies and mismanagement of ...