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(The Center Square) — U.S. senators from Arizona and Nevada have introduced legislation declaring extreme heat a major disaster. The Extreme Heat Emergency Act from Sens. Ruben Gallego, D-Arizona, and ...

In our first article, we discussed the current professional crisis emergency & disaster management is facing. A crisis fifty years in the making that has led to the major systemic failures and issues ...

Hurricane Katrina looms large in the history of American emergency management, both for what went wrong as the disaster unfolded and for the policy changes it triggered. As the nation looks back on ...

A worker in Thailand clears a road after a major flood. Disasters can threaten the infrastrucutre, investment climate, and human capital that jobs depend on. Photo credit: Adobe Stock At the World ...

The disaster revealed important shortcomings in Haiti's overall national disaster risk management system. After the January 2010 earthquake, reducing vulnerability, improving emergency preparedness ...

State and local governments, Governors, Mayors, County Commissioners, and Tribal Councils need to have real conversations with their local Emergency Managers and their communities. Historically, ...