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 ...

How could better application of information technology (IT) to disaster management reduce the human and economic costs of catastrophic events? This chapter outlines a vision for IT-enhanced disaster ...

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 ...

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] WASHINGTON — A new disaster mitigation program enacted into law last year received a resounding endorsement from a Federal Emergency ...

BOSTON — A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from reallocating $4 billion meant to help communities protect against natural disasters. U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns in ...

North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson asked a federal court to force FEMA to comply with an earlier order.

Recent flash flooding in Alice Springs is drawing attention to inland flood risk and mitigation at a time when the insurance sector is facing higher catastrophe losses and affordability pressures. On ...

My August International Association of Emergency Mangers (IAEM) Disaster Zone column went live recently. See below for a copy of what I wrote. Try asking around for yourself with your peers and see ...

The World Bank Group works with the government of India on implementation of its National Disaster Management Plan, with assessing risks and incorporating disaster risk information into development ...