In November 2007, the state of Tabasco suffered its worst flood in the past 50 years. A week of heavy rains and storms inundated the oil-rich state and more than one million people - approximately 50% ...

This guide offers strategies to manage medical surges during a natural or human-caused disaster, with a focus on staffing, supply, space and systems.

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation A well-functioning financial management information system (FMIS) provides timely, reliable, and comprehensive reports that ...

The system approach principle places individual system elements in their environments and observes the relationships between them. Instead of studying a specific phenomenon first – an automobile ...

The Philippines is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world. Located along the Pacific ring of fire, the Philippines is highly susceptible to seismic and volcanic risks. The country is ...

Disasters can rarely be anticipated, much less prevented. After both natural disasters (e.g., earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, and landslides) and man-made catastrophes (e.g., wars, mining ...

THE National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has canvassed a new approach to management of natural and man-made disasters. Its Head of Ekiti State Operations Office, Mr. Saheed Akiode, made the ...

Dr. Montano is an assistant professor of emergency management at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy and the author of “Disasterology: Dispatches From the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis.” This summer ...

In 2018, the small, picturesque town of Ellicott City, MD was devastated by a one-in-1,000-year flash flood. This happened just two years after it was similarly devastated by what was also ...