Planning is an important avenue to community emergency preparedness. The practice of emergency response planning is best thought of as a process - a continuing sequence of analyses, plan development, ...

Six years after 9/11, the federal government still lacks a comprehensive regime for planning and pre­paring for large-scale disasters. In part, this shortfall is the product of an inadequate ...

You never know when a disaster might strike your business, but this comprehensive disaster preparedness guide can help you successfully navigate one. Running a small business is hard enough without ...

The first 72 hours after a disaster are the most critical. The most effective responses during this period come from those closest to the scene. Faith-based and community organizations play vital ...

As North Carolina enters the second year of recovery from the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene, it's worth turning our ...

Fire to Flourish is funded by the Paul Ramsay Foundation and Metal Manufactures Pty Ltd. Additional funding is provided by the Lowy Foundation. David Johnston receives funding from the Australian ...

Disaster doesn’t come in one shape. From pandemics to extreme weather to cyber attacks, effective business continuity and disaster planning is a modern problem that requires modern solutions, says ...

Virtualisation has revolutionised the way we deploy applications in the datacentre, and arguably that stretches to disaster recovery. Server provisioning that previously took weeks or months is ...

Countries worldwide are regularly touched by a variety of manmade and natural crises including such events as the West African food crisis of 2012, Hurricane Katrina in 2007, and the 2004 Indian Ocean ...

Heavy rains and floods not only ruined the holidays for many Filipinos across the country, but also destroyed homes, agricultural crops, and infrastructure, and caused the deaths of 52. One death is ...