The job cuts expected this month are part of a plan by the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, to remake the agency.

Federal Emergency Management Agency leaders were told to prepare for a possible gutting of their workforce — by as much as half — in the coming months, according to an internal email sent to top FEMA ...

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, ...

As North Carolina enters the second year of recovery from the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene, it's worth turning our ...

Fire to Flourish is funded by the Paul Ramsay Foundation and Metal Manufactures Pty Ltd. Additional funding is provided by the Lowy Foundation. David Johnston receives funding from the Australian ...

Six years after 9/11, the federal government still lacks a comprehensive regime for planning and pre­paring for large-scale disasters. In part, this shortfall is the product of an inadequate ...

History is riddled with the tragic stories of cities, communities, organizations, and complexes that experienced devastation wrought by a natural disaster of some kind. In many (or even most) of these ...

Q: “Disaster recovery” seems pretty self-explanatory. Is there any difference between that and “business continuity planning”? A: Disaster recovery is the process by which you resume business after a ...

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 ...

Virtualisation has revolutionised the way we deploy applications in the datacentre, and arguably that stretches to disaster recovery. Server provisioning that previously took weeks or months is ...