U.S. Household Disaster Giving Report
After disasters, many people rely on charitable giving to rebuild their lives. Not enough, though, is known about the ways Americans give after a disaster, how much they choose to give, or what drives them. This report from the Center for Disaster Philanthropy used data from the significant disasters of 2017 and 2018 to examine those factors and found, among other insights, that disaster magnitude and personal connections were top reasons that the 30 percent of U.S. households chose to disaster relief efforts.
Impact360 Alliance
This budding nonprofit is working to connect researchers and practitioners in order to amplify the impacts of those working in the hazards and disasters field. The group can assist professionals by facilitating communication, helping design collaborative research processes, encouraging integrative problem-solving, and providing resources and tools to help build capacity to create sustainable solutions for reducing disaster risk.
FIBER
FIBER—or the Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience—is working to weave together numerous disciplines in order to promote increased resilience in the face of increasingly complex threats. The University of Florida effort is just getting underway, but will soon be collaborating internally and externally to create new knowledge and further evidenced-based practice in the realms of planning, design, construction, and sustainability.
Risk Communication Strategies for the Very Worst of Cases
A global catastrophic biological risk—such as worldwide pandemic capable of severely impacting all humans—might seem like a Hollywood scenario, but the possibility is a real one. This report from the Center for Health Security at John Hopkins University offers suggestions for how to communicate such risks to policymakers and the public if such an event were to occur. The report examined existing attitudes in science and practice and relevant historical contexts to create a set of recommendations for effective communication that could drive tangible action in the event of an existential global health crisis.
Climigration
Rising sea levels and their continued encroachment into coastal communities has led to this creation of this project, which aims to advance conversations about how societies can address problems of human settlement in harm’s way. This site offers resources for discussing and planning relocation, funding resettlement, and the building the leadership consensus to do so. With an emphasis on the social, economic, and policy impacts such actions have, the site also offers case studies of communities who have enacted changes and grant awards for organizations working to tackle the problem.