FEMA project promoting college-based emergency management education for future emergency managers and other interested personnel.
Blog of the Institute for Global and Community Resilience, aimed at developing a cutting-edge research agenda to facilitate greater disaster risk awareness and reduction and supporting participatory processes in emergency planning.
Exploring the complementary roles of an informed and involved citizenry, academic centers and community-based organizations, and disaster response professionals in disaster mitigation, response, and recovery.
Paper looking at how after Hurricane Katrina “the neighborhood surrounding the Mary Queen of Vietnam Catholic Church was showing clear signs of recovery” in contrast to the slow pace of recovery in other areas.
Article outlining how government recovery 'plans tend to ignore the innate abilities of individuals, communities, and businesses to use a variety of resources and ... information to guide their decisions about whether and how to rebuild'.
Looking at experience after Hurricane Katrina and with flood and terrorism insurance, 'this article focuses on the conceptual issues involved in insuring against major catastrophes and the practical problems involved in developing a coherent strategy'.
This paper explores how programs providing housing assistance, unemployment benefits, health care, and welfare to low-income people and others fared under the extreme conditions of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.
'This guide provides a series of starting, generic checklists of outcome indicators and related information considered pertinent to studying emergency services responses.'
'This paper explores what happened in New Orleans–area hospitals during and after Hurricane Katrina and why hospitals had such varied experiences.'
