Database Category: Compounding Hazards & Natural Disasters

During the Camp Fire, the average age of those who died in Butte County was 72. Because of this and other disasters, the state says taking care of vulnerable people is a priority.

A San Francisco startup is matching farmers to distributors to get food to hungry people and reduce greenhouse gases

A Podcast to Help You Understand What’s Going on Every week, Dr. Jones sits down to share her insights and perspective on the chaotic world around us on her podcast, Getting Through It, co-hosted with community resilience expert John Bwarie. The duo were co-creators of The Great Shake-Out and worked to create sweeping policy changes […]

As a leader, it’s your role to step up and organize people and resources to help your community through crises. But (especially in 2020), it’s never “just one thing.” How do you lead during compounding crises when they keep cascading? How do you lead when many of the issues at hand are not in your […]

It depends if your worldview is “half-empty” or “half-full.” In any case, analysis of the latest cybercrime data is in and it’s clear that cybercriminals had a busy 2019. The volume of global threats against business endpoints has increased 13% year-over-year.

To accelerate our pace and meet the challenges of current and future health threats, we must advance our world-class data and analytics capabilities; maintain and expand our state-of-the-art public health laboratory capacity; continue building a workforce of trusted, expert, public health professionals; sustain our capacity to rapidly respond to outbreaks at their source; and assure […]

The world faces difficulties managing disasters while making efforts to slowing the spread of COVID-19. The paper aims at proposing policies and approaches to manage dual disasters of flooding and COVID-19.

California’s year of pandemic, recession and civic unrest also includes angst over the outcome of the 2020 census. The state likely will lose at least one congressional seat and perhaps two.

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