Human Organization, Vol. 74, No. 4, Special Issue: Applied Anthropology of Risk, Hazards, and Disasters (Winter 2015), pp. 351-361 (11 pages) We conducted thirty-two interviews and four focus groups ...

It has been a privilege to share my thinking about any number of emergency management topics over the past four years. However, all things must come to an end and this will be my last Disaster Zone ...

In my career I’ve responded to many different types of disasters. Other than acts of terrorism and cruel deliberate violence, I believe floods may be the most psychologically toxic disaster one may ...

From tropical storms to wildfires, climate disasters aren’t confined to the places we’re used to seeing them. From tropical storms to wildfires, climate disasters aren’t confined to the places we’re ...

The official start of hurricane season has brought another entry into the increasingly crowded field of government technology designed to help during disasters. In this case, it is the expansion of ...

As COVID-19 first broke in March 2020 and California wildfires raged, one thing became clear: The field of psychiatry needed a new way of thinking about and responding to complicated, overlapping ...