This is part one in a three-part series on risk mitigation and disaster recovery. Read part two here and part three here. Business leaders and risk managers should always be prepared for the worst. As ...

Westwood’s Gabriel Salazar on how builders are using mitigation, embedded insurance and carrier alignment to secure insurability and stabilize premiums.

Elizabeth Zimmerman is the former FEMA associate administrator and deputy associate administrator for response and recovery from 2009 to 2017, where she led the response and recovery operations of 938 ...

The enforced compliance order comes nearly a year after FEMA terminated the program, calling it "wasteful" and "politicized." ...

One year ago, Congress transformed the field of emergency management with the passage of the Disaster Recovery Reform Act (DRRA) of 2018. These important reforms to federal disaster programs ...

AG Kwame Raoul wins court order forcing FEMA to reinstate BRIC disaster funding, protecting communities nationwide including Illinois against natural disasters.

20 years have passed since the Aceh tsunami, which left deep scars on Indonesia, especially for those directly affected. Aceh was also recovering from a three-decade armed conflict between the Free ...

Climate change exacerbates the severity of natural disasters, which disproportionately affect vulnerable populations. Mitigating disasters’ health consequences is critical to promoting health equity, ...

On May 16, 2001, Joe Allbaugh, President Bush's first director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, appeared before the Senate Appropriations Committee and laid out the administration's ...

Senior Lecturer, Humanitarian Emergency and Disaster Management, College of Indigenous Futures, Arts and Society, Charles Darwin University The United Nations’ Sendai Framework for disaster risk ...

A project in Leland is among those receiving funding as part of a $40 million disaster relief and mitigation package ...

In 2022, the United States experienced 18 separate weather and climate disasters costing at least one billion dollars according to NOAA. In 2023, that number rose to 28 separate billion dollar weather ...