In the ever-evolving landscape of emergency services, the role of executive fire officers extends beyond the immediate scope of fire response and EMS. As leaders, these officers must embrace a broader ...

What would happen if a major windstorm, wildfire, or other disaster damaged your home and community and left you and fellow residents without food, water, or shelter for a long time? Are you and ...

The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued a draft guide to help communities plan for and act to keep windstorms, floods, earthquakes, sea-level rise, ...

A novel study empirically linking a standardized measure of community resilience in more than 3,100 U.S. counties to cognitive, mental, and physical health outcomes shows that counties with fewer ...

Like many organizations, the fire service is significantly transforming its leadership styles and approaches. Historically, leadership within the fire service was rooted in an aggressive and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Monica Sanders covers climate justice and sustainability from the DMV. In an era where climate change poses unprecedented ...

Building Collective Resilience via Collective Memory is an oral history project that will record experiences of urban flooding in Waltham, MA. The stories that we collect will be made available to ...

How can the public benefit from protection against threats to government agencies and the workers that provide services and that respond to emergencies like Hurricanes Helene & Milton? How can ...

Contemplate, if you will, the concept of “resilience in complex adaptive systems.” “Huh? What’s that all about? ” you might well ask. “And what’s it got to do with me?” I’ll answer the second question ...

Climate change affects people’s lives and livelihoods all over the world. The World Health Organization estimates that 3.6 billion people already live in areas impacted by climate change. Low-income ...

In Pakistan, the Sindh Flood Emergency Rehabilitation Project (SFERP) has improved flood protection for 2.3 million people (almost half of whom are women) after the devastating 2022 floods; repaired ...