How do other countries approach emergency management? Learn about the disaster recovery and risk management strategies employed by Switzerland, Japan, Ecuador, and Indonesia and how they can inform the evolution of emergency management in the US.

If the federal government follows through with its promise to significantly reduce the scope of FEMA or eliminate it altogether, state emergency management agencies will need to come up with a new playbook to handle largescale disasters. Who will pay for it and how?

In rural areas, vast distances and lack of resources can make disaster response and recovery more challenging. Learn how geography, population, and resources impact emergency management in rural places.

In an urban setting, interdependencies between complex infrastructure and utility systems can profoundly complicate response and recovery operations. Learn how geography, population, and resources impact emergency management in urban places.

Climate change is often cited as a key contributing factor to the rise in costly disasters over the past 40+ years, but less widely discussed is the role urban sprawl has to play. Learn how sprawl development increases the impact of disasters and how we can reduce our vulnerability.

The Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 (DMA2K) strengthened the US federal government’s disaster relief capabilities and placed more emphasis on pre-disaster hazard mitigation planning.