Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

New digital compendium brings together water-related emergency management resources, references, and real-world ...

Emergency management is a field dedicated to creating frameworks that help communities reduce their vulnerability to different types of disasters and cope with their aftereffects. These threats may ...

As disasters become more frequent and severe in the U.S., it's more important than ever to prepare. Every year, significant resources are poured into training programs for disaster management ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has proposed cutting nearly $1 billion in grant funding that communities and first responders nationwide use to better prepare ...

An emergency management system includes activities to prepare for, respond to, recover from and mitigate future potential harm. The planning should comply with the national strategy as specified in ...

With climate change and national security becoming bigger concerns, an online degree in emergency management may be a wise pursuit. Here’s some relevant recent history: In 2012, Superstorm Sandy ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Local emergency managers, the behind-the-scenes coordinators ...

COPIAH COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) – Copiah County is now home to a new 8,400-square-foot emergency management center. The Copiah ...

Natural disasters, cyberattacks, viral outbreaks and other emergencies can be devastatingly destructive, and are generally not preventable. The four phases of emergency management (EM) serve as a ...

Wes Smith, a 20-year Perry County emergency services veteran, was appointed director of Emergency Management and 911, ...

Gov. Brian Kemp declared a state of emergency for all 159 Georgia counties ahead of Hurricane Isaias. Here's what the order ...