FEMA Calls for 2015 Individual and Community Preparedness Awards ApplicationsApril
we present answers to six questions associated with what is known as the Impact Event Scale (IES). IES is often used to analyze human experiences following exposure to traumatic events with the intent to explore whether storms are associated ...
HAZUS- FEMA's Hazus Program provides standardized tools and data for estimating risk from earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, and hurricanes. Risk assessment resources and tools from the Hazus program are always freely available and transparently developed. ...
Social media preparedness toolkits. Access to FEMA’s Preparedness Portal, where public safety leaders can register their events and connect with other programs and community leaders. To register your CERT with FEMA, create an account at community.fema.gov(opens in a new tab) Understand Your Admin...
The article offers information on the October 1, 2009 issue of "Emergency Management: Preliminary Observations on FEMA's Community Preparedness Programs Related to the National Preparedness System." It explores the preliminary observation faced by Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) whether Citizen...
C-LEARN uses a Community Partnered Participatory Research (CPPR) approach to address depression, disaster recovery, and preparedness [49,50]. CPPR supports academic and community partners in equitable collaboration through principles of power sharing, trust and respect, and two-way knowledge exchange ...
risk reduction; governance; housing rebuilding; post-disaster reconstruction; time compression; Hurricane Katrina; Christchurch earthquakes1. Introduction Disasters are seen as opportunities to rebuild physical, social, environmental and economic systems for a future more resilient to disasters [1]. The ...