Comprehensive Preparedness Guide 101
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has just put the finishing touches on the first in a series of Preparedness Guides. The debut guide—Developing Emergency Operation Plans—will be useful for everyone from government officials to nonprofit planners. Upcoming guides will focus on special needs planning, household pets and service animals, the fusion center/emergency operations center interface, and specific hazards.
Fire and Emergency Services Higher Education Facebook Page
Hey, you’re spending all that time on Facebook anyway, here’s a chance to connect with more than 500 people interested in fire and emergency professional development and training. Become and fan and explore message boards and event listings, offer feedback and check out all the other features FESHE has to offer as it moves toward its vision of FESHE 3.0.
Natural Disasters and Human Capital Accumulation
In this World Bank Sustainable Development Network working paper, author Jesus Crespo Cuaresma examines the relationship between disaster risk and investment in education. Using model averaging methods and panel regressions, he is able to empirically correlate secondary school enrollment and natural disasters.
EcoEdNet Digital Catalog
The Ecology Society of America has launched a searchable library of teaching resources related to ecology, including topics such as fire ecology, global climate change, food and water security, and coastal habitat restoration. Researchers can use the information for classes and add their own work to the collection of articles, lectures, images, and other data.
Hurricane Season Countdown Widget
Do you keep meaning to prepare for hurricane season, but can’t seem to maintain a decent sense of impending doom? Your website users probably feel the same. Help them out with a FEMA Hurricane Season Countdown Widget for your home page or blog. Just paste in the code and visitors will get a steady stream of handy hurricane tips, a link to FloodSmart.gov, and—best of all—a chance to see valuable preparedness time ticking away.
Save Charity Hospital
Community efforts to save New Orleans historic Charity Hospital from a plan to replace it with a controversial medical campus now have a website devoted to their cause. The site includes video clips of about-to-be-displaced neighbors, a blog on current developments, related documents, information on how to get involved, and why you should care.