FEMA PrepTalks
Emergency managers might have their work cut out for them now and in the future, but this new talk series will help them prep. The series—put together by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other partners—feature talks by disaster experts paired with a discussion guide and complementary resources. FEMA suggests emergency managers use the talk videos with their partners or at whole community meetings to spark conversation and new ideas. Available talks include modernizing public warnings, coming pandemics, and social capital in mitigation and recovery.
Global Risks Report 2018
The World Economic Forum has released the most recent edition of its Global Risks Report, which finds that, although current and ongoing challenges are being taken seriously, we have a way to go before we can adequately respond to the increasingly complex and interdependent threats that we face on a global scale. This report, the 13th in the series, includes three features new this year—Future Shocks, focusing on potential risks; Hindsight, which maps the evolution of existing harms; and Risk Reassessment, where experts contemplate how we can better understand risk.
50 States, 50 Stories
For many people, climate change is a concept—scientific, complicated, perhaps even debatable. But for editors of this Weather Channel project, climate change is a story; one that's staged in your back yard. The site gathers stories from each of the 50 states that show just how climate change is impacting us in different ways and in ways that many might not immediately recognize as climate caused. Click on your state to see what's up-and what comes next.
SchoolSafetyInfo.Org
Recent events have unfortunately brought the need for school safety to the forefront-again. Luckily this website, created with a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, has plenty of resources for schools ranging from kindergartens to higher education, with a special emphasis on information that might be useful to school resource officers and crisis counselors. Find a series of free publications on making schools safe, training and response resources, and stories of best practices that have worked.
Vulnerability to Covert Attack
The more things change, the more they stay the same. That's one of the reasons it can sometimes be helpful to look back at how we once did things. This 1959 video on how to respond to biological warfare is an old school perspective on biothreats and how to react. The 22 minute film discusses urban vulnerability to attack, the effect of nerve gas and chemical agents on humans, and how to treat those affected by an attack.