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With 2022 coming to a close and 2023 just around the corner, IAEM wishes its members, partners, and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we are providing readers of the IAEM Dispatch a look at the most accessed articles from the year. This issue includes The Top 10 articles. Our regular publication will resume Thursday, Jan. 5.
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Emergency managers: Ditch the plan and write a playbook
Government Technology
From June 2: More important than having a plan ahead of an emergency situation is the process of planning itself. During events, emergency managers should leave room for improvisation and adjusting to conditions as they unfold.
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Since Hurricane Katrina, only seven cities have adopted strong disaster preparedness plans
The Hill
From Sept. 1: Hurricane Katrina made landfall 17 years ago this month, bringing widespread devastation to residents of Gulf Coast states Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi, and is considered among the greatest natural disasters to ever hit the United States. However, new research from a team at Florida Atlantic University shows that within the past two decades, the country has not learned nearly enough from the catastrophe and that “only marginal improvements have occurred with respect to evacuation planning in America’s 50 largest cities.”
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How do we measure community disaster resilience?
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign via Phys.org
From Aug. 18: In a new study published in the Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, retired Illinois State Water Survey engineer Sally McConkey and Eric R. Larson, a professor of natural resources and environmental sciences at the U. of I., examined the metrics used at a county scale for national assessments to determine whether communities are prepared to withstand and recover from natural disasters such as floods and fires.
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The 'Disasterology' author wants us to rethink emergency management
MIT Sloan School of Management
From Jan. 20: Samantha Montano’s research may be academic, but it’s informed by her relief work on the front lines of major disasters. She volunteered in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, on the Gulf Coast after the BP oil spill, and in Alabama and Missouri following devastating tornado strikes. Those hands-on experiences led Montano, who gave a keynote presentation at the 2021 MIT Water Summit, to become a passionate advocate for emergency management policy reform and disaster justice, which she teaches at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy.
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Why disasters have declined
Forbes
From Jan. 13: Over the last 30 years, the United Nations, climate scientists, and governments around the world have claimed that climate change is making natural disasters including hurricanes, floods, and heatwaves more frequent. “Climate change has helped drive a fivefold increase in the number of weather-related disasters in the last 50 years,” reported National Public Radio last fall, citing a report by the U.N.’s World Meteorological Organization.
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Senate passes bipartisan bill to protect pets and other animals during and after natural disasters
Homeland Security Today
From Aug. 18: Bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Rob Portman (R-OH), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, to help protect pets and other animals during and in the aftermath of natural disasters and emergencies has passed the Senate. The Planning for Animal Wellness (PAW) Act directs the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to establish an advisory group with outside experts that will align FEMA guidance to match current best practices in animal care for disaster preparedness, response, and recovery.
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The evolving status of emergency management organizations
Domestic preparedness
From Jan. 20: The proliferation of climate change, political strife, and general societal divisiveness is changing the nature of the work of emergency managers. The (ongoing) COVID-19 global pandemic, devastating hurricane and wildfire seasons, tenuous political situations, and broad unrest impact local communities in significant ways. Emergency managers are those who officials trust to lead response and recovery to this growing list of emergencies and disasters. They facilitate multi-agency responses to complex incidents, often serving in silence while providing critical backbone services.
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Joe Biden has a new vision for the National Flood Insurance Program
Government Executive
From June 30: The Biden administration is proposing a major overhaul to the National Flood Insurance Program, or NFIP — the main source of insurance for homeowners who are required to or choose to obtain coverage for flooding. Last month, Alice Lugo, assistant secretary for legislative affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, put forth 17 legislative proposals that would collectively represent the biggest reform to the Federal Emergency Management Administration’s National Flood Insurance Program since the program’s inception. The proposals, which have to make their way through a politically polarized Congress before they can become law, have the potential to drastically alter the way Americans protect their homes and businesses against flooding.
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How New Mexico's largest wildfire set off a drinking water crisis
The New York Times
From Sept. 29: Heavy monsoon rains would normally be cause for celebration in the drought-parched mountains of northeastern New Mexico, where the Rockies meet the Great Plains, especially after the largest wildfire in state history came within a mile of torching the region’s largest community this spring. But not this year, when fears of running out of fresh water forced officials to cancel an annual arts and crafts fair that draws thousands of visitors in Las Vegas, N.M. All over this town of 13,000 people, carwashes are closed. Swimming pools are empty. Restaurants are serving food on paper plates. And the gushing skies are no help.
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Audit finds holes in Louisiana's response to Hurricane Ida
WVLA-TV
From March 31: Hurricane season is approaching, and after Hurricane Ida hit seven months ago, the Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s office is asking if Louisiana is prepared for another one. In a nearly 50-page report, auditors made eight recommendations for the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP) in their hurricane response based on what they found after Ida swept through the state.
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