- All-Hazards:
- California Wildfire Report: Smart Growth, Fire-Resistant Building Standards Can Mitigate Blazes (HS Today)
- Fire risks: Building Standards Give Us False Hope. There’s No Such Thing as a Fireproof House (HSNW)
- More Than $32 Million Approved for Infrastructure Projects in Harvey Affected Areas (Victoria Advocate)
- Early Morning Earthquake is Latest to Rattle Tennessee in a Month, Geologists Say (Ledger-Enquirer)
- Cellphone Outages Exacerbate Planned Outages in California (Emergency Prep Partnerships)
- Oil Spill Clean-Up: Better Method (Science Daily)
- Preparing for Washington’s Increasing Natural Disasters (EM / GovTech)
Resilience:
- Reducing Risk, Empowering Resilience to Disruptive Global Change (MIT News)
- Forget Hurricanes and Sea Rise. This Bill Could Lead to a Building Boom in the Keys (Miami Herald)
- Modifying Hurricane Relief Strategies (HSNW)
- Mitigation Minute: External Stakeholder Working Group Announces New Members (FEMA)
Public Health / Biosurveillance:
- Outbreak: Is America Prepared To Face Growing Biothreats? (HS Today)
- US Is Less Ready for Infectious Disease Outbreaks Like Coronavirus (Defense One)
- “No Country Is Fully Prepared”: Why the Coronavirus Outbreak is a Huge Wake-Up Call (Vox)
- Twitter Leading to New Way of Tracking and Predicting Virus Outbreaks.(NSF)
- Public-Private Cooperation for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (Dom Prep)
- An Integrative Review of the Limited Evidence on Travel Bans as an Emerging Infectious Disease Disaster Control Measure (Journal of Emergency Management)
Critical Infrastructure & Cyber:
- Developing a Cyber Breach Public Relations Plan (Forbes)
- How to Prepare and Respond When Natural Disasters Cause a Nuclear Emergency (HS Today)
- With Cybercriminals on the Attack, States Help Cities Punch Back (Stateline)
- Some Local Govs Are Left High and Dry after Cyberattacks (Governing)
- Governors Commit to Broadband as Critical Infrastructure in State of the States (Governing)
Innovations & Interconnections:
- S. Financial Regulators Have A Duty To Steer Us Away From Climate-induced Financial Collapse (Forbes)
- You Should Know About This Chernobyl Fungus That Eats Radiation (Popular Mechanics)
From Brassville to... (working title) 