The National Disaster Recovery Framework is now available for review and comment. The Federal Register notice provides the details. FEMA is seeking comments per Elizabeth Zimmerman, Assistant ...

The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in coordination with the interagency Long Term Disaster Recovery Working Group, has issued a draft of the ...

East Baton Rouge Parish is still in recovery mode from devastating flooding in August 2016, and with some residents still out of their homes, East Baton Rouge has begun developing a more efficient, ...

The link between poverty and disasters is becoming clearer – new research shows that extreme weather events alone are pushing up to 26 million people into poverty every year. With forces like climate ...

In an era where urban areas are increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters, a new study published in Engineering offers a comprehensive framework for quantifying urban disaster resilience. The ...

A billion dollars is a lot of money. A billion dollars in damage is the US government’s benchmark for measuring the relative impact of natural disasters. In the United States alone, the number of ...

Each year, natural disasters, compounded by climate change and conflict, cause more than $500 billion in losses Yet governments, supported by the World Bank, increasingly understand that investing in ...

On December 7, 2012 President Obama signed an executive ordercreating the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force to "…ensure that the Federal Government continues to provide appropriate resources to ...

Despite efforts to improve community resilience to disasters, over the past 25 years the number and economic impact of disasters has increased each year. The rising number of disasters in developing ...