That’s where the use of Google Maps for emergency planning, preparedness and recovery ... “Like Pedro, government and business leaders are tapping into the richness that real-time location ...

Where do you see technology being used today to advance the different missions of the emergency management community? The role of technology ... entities with the government of Luxembourg to ...

Emergency preparedness is vital for UNHCR to respond quickly and reliably to forced displacement crises. Learn more about how we prepare for potential crises.

National Functions: The Secretary of Homeland Security must propose changes to “overlapping and overbroad ‘functions’” – including the “Emergency Support Functions” (ESF) and NCFs.

Homeland security and disaster management ... federal government's role in coordinating national activities, not in directing how and what individual communities do in the event of an emergency.

Richard Andrews is the dean of emergency managers in the United States. Many of his 30 years of emergency management experience have been served in senior positions in government and business.

(WALB) - Since September, Albany Mayor Bo Dorough and City Commissioners Jon Howard and BJ Fletcher have been going over and clarifying the city’s role ... government has to have an emergency ...

(Ryan Cullom file photo) In the response to a major disaster, the Santa Barbara County government ... a specialized role to store and distribute medicine — including county Emergency Medical ...

For months, Trump has said he's considering getting rid of the Federal Emergency Management ... FEMA's role is to coordinate all those resources from the federal government in support of the ...

Probably every car and truck in America has a spare tire for an emergency, but how many of us ever check it for air? Simple and so important, yet even this simple level of preparedness is too much ...

To equip humanitarian, government and media practitioners ... BBC Media Action carries out emergency preparedness work, including training with practitioners from across these fields.

Ahead of the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction on 13 October, we look at the role played by the IAEA’s unique Incident and Emergency Centre in preparing and responding to potential nuclear ...