According to FEMA, 40% of small and mid-sized businesses never reopen after a disaster. For those that do, the road back is ...

The second Lahaina Community Disaster Recovery meeting of this month took place Wednesday evening at the Lahaina Community Civic center, with Mayor Richard T. Bissen not in attendance due to him being ...

Recovering from a disaster takes planning and foresight by the affected community and takes a vision for how to build back better after the fact. The National Institute of Standards and Technology ...

Planning is an important avenue to community emergency preparedness. The practice of emergency response planning is best thought of as a process - a continuing sequence of analyses, plan development, ...

WASHINGTON — Federal agencies such as FEMA, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and state and local agencies should proactively plan for community ...

The laborious work of cleaning up and analyzing the damage left behind from back-to-back natural disasters continues in south ...

Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Deakin University In the past ten years we have seen ...

Many bankers are easily confused by the technical requirements for loans in "disaster areas'' to be potentially qualified for community development credit under CRA. This brief article explains how to ...

FULTON, N.Y., Sept. 24, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- An issue that rises to the surface after nearly every major disaster is that of "post event access." How do we overcome the obstacles of getting critical, ...

A FEMA Disaster Recovery Center will open in Chesterfield Township Friday morning to help Macomb County residents kick-start their recovery after last August’s severe storms, tornadoes and flooding.

All housing activities will serve households with incomes at or below 80% of the area median income. Priority will be given ...

Journalists interested in community disaster recovery in the Australian context can attend this webinar. In this webinar, Anne Leadbeater, director of Leadbeater Group, and Dr. Kate Brady, senior ...