Nepal, Five Months after the Gorkha Earthquake

Rather than discussing death, destruction and national incompetence to respond adequately to the Gorkha earthquake in Nepal, this article highlights local disaster preparedness, resilience, and the impact of ongoing initiatives that empowered people to respond quickly during the earthquake and its aftershock sequence.

The New York Rising Community Reconstruction Program

Regional recovery after Superstorm Sandy was relatively swift, partically because recovery planners applied some of the hard lessons learned after Hurricane Katrina. Among these post-Sandy innovations was the state-led New York Rising Community Reconstruction program, a $650 million effort to put rebuilding decisions and future resilience planning in the hands of residents of the hardest hit areas.

The Changing Narrative of the 1953 North Sea Flood in the Netherlands

In the Netherlands, survivors of the North Sea Flood of 1953, which killed 1,836 people, were not motivated to discuss the disaster's emotional impact. Instead, social and political expectations forced them to focus on the future—on rebuilding and improving what had been lost, rather than mourning it.

A Katrina Round Up

High Profile Outbreaks Aren't Related - Or All That Uncommon