Post-disaster Redevelopment Planning: A Guide for Florida Communities
Not every community faces the same disaster planning challenges as Florida coastal communities, and unlike those communities, few are required to have a redevelopment plan. Even so, any city looking to reduce its vulnerability to disaster and increase mitigation efforts will find this guide useful. With chapters devoted to initial planning, what to include in a plan, and lessons from Florida’s six pilot programs, much of the heavy lifting is already done.
Strengthening Climate Resilience
Strengthening Climate Resilience is a community of researchers, policy workers, and others incorporating disaster risk management into climate adaptation techniques. In doing so, members hope to create better ways to plan for and respond to disaster. Visitors can read up on the group's Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management approach, see the approach in action in Asia and Africa, and tap into a wealth of resources to help create new integrations.
MapAction
An oldie but goodie, MapAction has been creating situation maps of humanitarian crises since 2004. These constantly shifting maps might detail damage, give information on population, give updates on health and sanitation, or a provide a number of other details useful to international responders. MapAction offers a free catalogue for crisis relief organizations and also provides crisis mapping training.
NOAA’s Historical Hurricane Tracks
You no longer have to be a weather scientist to manipulate hurricane data like a pro, thanks to this new website from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA has put 150 years of hurricane data at the fingertips of the average Joe in the form of customizable maps, population data, and other nifty tools. And once the perfect storm is tracked, it can be linked to the Web or forwarded to friends.
FireFacts.Org
Normally, suggesting kids have fun with fire isn’t the best idea, but FireFacts.Org is a great way to make kids fire aware while they have a blast. The site is a treasure trove of interactive games, downloadable activity sheets, and resources aimed at kids, parents, and educators. In between the coloring contests and club games, you might be surprised at what you—and the kids—will learn.