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Displaying 15 of about 43 resultsIt is time to include people with disabilities in emergency services as contributors and collaborators, not just as people viewed as victims to be rescued users. Repeated pleas, over the years, from disability advocates to replace “special needs” with more respectful, precise, segmented, and discrete groupings, continue to be ignored.
Highlights many disaster response and recovery areas of significant and specific concern to the diverse disabilities communities in California. It documents the experiences of people with disabilities and individuals with access and functional needs. The areas covered include: cross cutting issues, communication access, mass care and shelter, evacuation…
Blind or visually impaired people are faced with many challenges, not the least of which is personal safety. Interaction with an environment one cannot see creates potential health and safety hazards. As a result, blind or visually impaired people are at increased risk of injury and death in the event of a fire. Depending on the severity of vision loss,…
This report builds on lessons learned during two severe earthquakes in California, where it was observed that persons with physical or mental disabilities were disadvantaged by otherwise well planned disaster preparedness measures. Problems included accessibility at shelters, policies that could discriminate against disabled persons, and lack of knowled…
This report's purpose is to provide an overview of the hazard risks facing the nation, identify the common links between technological and natural hazard risk reduction, review the U.S. Government’s current efforts to increase the nation’s disaster resiliency through research and implementation of new tools and technologies, and identify issues and oppo…
Disasters. 2008 March ; 32(1): 149–165.
This paper presents the results of a pilot study in implementing a community-based resource database through collaboration with local American Red Cross chapters and public and private community organizations. The design of the resource database is described. The resource database is accessible both using the Int…
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Este libro recoge los resultados principales de la investigación realizada por el proyecto “Gestión de Riesgos de Desastre ENSO en América Latina”, que ha girado desde el principio en las dimensiones humanas y los procesos de construcción social del riesgo y su gestión, asociados con la variabilidad climática.
El libro difundir los result…
This report is a multi-sector strategy to help guide California's efforts in adapting to climate change impacts. In cooperation and partnership with multiple state agencies, the 2009 California Climate Adaptation Strategy summarizes the best known science on climate change impacts in seven specific sectors and provides recommendations on how to manage a…
This paper re-establishes standard advice on what to do in an earthquake, in response to some public concern both in the United States of America and in New Zealand, regarding widely circulated 'triangle of life' advice from Doug Copp, rescue chief and disaster manager of the American Rescue Team International (ARTI).
These coloring books help kids learn more about weather safety during tornadoes, winter weather and thunderstorms.
Your local media are great vehicles for reaching a larger audience and relaying fire safety messages for people ages 50 and older. The following tips will help you get results from the media.
Report of an assessment carried out by the US National Organization on Disability to investigate how emergency response and recovery operations after Hurricane Katrina had addressed disabled and elderly people’s needs. The assessment teams found a number of problems, which included the following. Linkages were weak between emergency shelters and agencie…
This report investigates the nature of the fire problem faced by older adults in the United States. It also describes the characteristics of the elderly that expose this subset of the population as a disproportionately high fire risk.
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This report can help reduce the potential impact of climate change on estuaries, forests, wetlands, coral reefs, and other sensitive ecosystems by identifiying strategies to protect the environment as these changes occur.
To develop this assessment, scientists studied national parks, national forests,…
This paper will provide background on the issue of emergency management and special needs, challenges facing meaningful integration of special needs issues, current federal and legal trends, and best practices and recommendations for integration and inclusion of special needs issues in planning and exercises. Additionally there are case studies provided…