Amid tragedy and loss, communities can struggle to rebuild themselves after a disaster. But Duke experts say experience show ...

With the new digital age, it can be hard to escape the influx of news stories. Even on social media apps like TikTok and ...

Emergency managers can also understand that their steady-state work may be applied to any part or multiple parts of the disaster phase cycle. This is the concept of Disaster Readiness or Disaster ...

To break this costly and dangerous cycle, we must designate certain disaster-prone areas as sacrifice zones—areas should be “sacrificed” back to nature. Subscribe to the Daily newsletter.

Depending on circumstances, disasters can cycle back to earlier phases. For example, during COVID-19, the impact of one wave informed anticipation of the next.

FEMA’s Office of Disability Integration and Coordination has identified 14 Potential Points of Inequity in the Disaster Cycle where emergency management programs and services intersect with the public ...

To break this costly and dangerous cycle, we must designate certain disaster-prone areas as sacrifice zones – areas should be “sacrificed” back to nature. In disaster-prone areas where human ...

It partners with the Texas Community Watershed Partners to assist across the entire disaster cycle. That means they help people mitigate, prepare, respond, and recover.

Local governments scramble to replace federal disaster funding Rural communities are scrambling after the Trump administration canceled billions in disaster grants. Many were counting on the funds ...