According to ISO 27031 Section 7.5, “A coordinated program should be implemented to ensure that processes are in place to regularly promote ICT DR awareness in general, as well as assess and enhance ...

[Photo: An aerial view of a house in Gilchrist, Texas, that survived the destruction of Hurricane Ike in September 2008. Courtesy of Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA.] Natural disasters are becoming more ...

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 ...

FEMA has announced the agency is establishing a new university called National Disaster & Emergency Management University (NDEMU) to help train emergency managers to keep pace with the rapidly ...

As part of the 8th edition of Nagaland Emergency Preparedness Exercise (NEPEx) 2026, the Nagaland State Disaster Management ...

In disaster-prone central Vietnam, community-based disaster risk management puts local villages and communities at the center of preparedness efforts. The Government of Vietnam is spending $18.5 ...

The Boulder Office of Disaster Management is partnering with the Center for People with Disabilities to host a 90-minute workshop about disaster preparedness. According to a post on X by workers at ...

In the first in this series of articles on disaster recovery (DR) planning, we examined risk and business impact assessment as the initial building block, and then looked at development of the DR plan ...

East Asia Pacific is the most disaster-stricken region in the world. According to a regional disaster risk management study from 2013, between 2000 and 2011, more than 1.6 billion people have been ...

Karnataka plans a Heatwave Resilience Framework to enhance preparedness and response to rising temperatures, focusing on health, safety, and coordination.

Bengaluru hosted a five-day disaster management training, enhancing national preparedness with diverse personnel and expert-led sessions.