Social media analytics has become an indispensable component of contemporary disaster management, offering rapid insight into evolving hazards, public needs and response efforts. By harnessing vast ...

Community resilience in disaster management encompasses the collective ability of a population to prepare for, absorb, recover from and adapt to adverse events. This concept has broadened from a ...

The latest Disaster Zone podcast is “Trends in Emergency Management,” description below. “The Disaster Zone podcast guest is John Scardena who hosts the Disaster Tough Podcast and also heads up ...

It has been a privilege to share my thinking about any number of emergency management topics over the past four years. However, all things must come to an end and this will be my last Disaster Zone ...

Traditional disasters with an acute phase and a relatively finite timeline for the immediate response are becoming a thing of the past. Emergency management and public health must now, instead, pivot ...