A car that was washed away floats close to the banks of the Jukskei River in Alexandra Township after floodwaters ravaged the area on November 10, 2016. Gulshan Khan/AFP via Getty Images Following ...

Humans have tried to predict the weather for as long as there have been floods and droughts. But in recent years, climate science, advanced computing and satellite imagery have supercharged their ...

Intervention to address disasters has evolved through time into a complex policy subsystem, and disaster policy is implemented through a set of functions known as emergency management and response.

Part two examines Emergency Management focused on building strong state and local programs less reliant on federal support.

Emergency and disaster situations are becoming increasingly complex, driven by global health threats, climate change, evolving patterns of risk, and ...

Emergency Management, whether conceived as a management system or an operational unit of government, should not be in the ‘business’ of managing global pandemics. While pandemics are certainly ...

When hurricanes approach the coast or wildfires tear through dry terrain, the first maps that most people see are the ones that track the danger itself. They show a storm’s path, the current fire ...