Dec 13, 20233 min read
Selling DRR: How to Highlight the Benefits of Sacrifice
Have you ever asked yourself the question: “At what level does a risk that is created by risk reduction itself become EXCESSIVE or...
Sep 22, 20232 min read
There Is No 'I' In Recovery
There's no shortage of great press about homes in Lahaina that survived the recent wildfires on account of homeowners' mitigation efforts...
Sep 22, 20233 min read
Leveraged Correctly, Values are a Much Stronger Resilience Incentive Than Fear
A National Geographic article titled Which Cities Will Still Be Livable in a Climate-Altered World (https://bit.ly/48sPB7m), like many...
Dec 2, 20226 min read
Nimble at the Turning Point
When faced with a crisis, will your organization have the capacity to be ‘nimble’ in its response? And can you know in advance whether it...
Nov 1, 20222 min read
Preserving Cultural Value in Resilience
Why practice Values-Based Emergency Management (#VBEM) or Values-Based Risk Management? Consider this truly remarkable graph illustrating...
May 16, 20223 min read
Disasters Aren't Political, It's Emergency Management That Is
As we pass 1 million U.S. COVID deaths, I can’t help but reflect on the common adage that ‘all disasters are political’. Because, I don’t...
Jun 9, 20215 min read
Is Disaster Resilience Just a Well-Played Game of Poker?
In her book The Biggest Bluff, psychologist Maria Konnikova takes an interesting view of human behavior by exploring poker as a strong...
May 24, 20211 min read
What "Values-Based Emergency Management" is all about
"People loved the trees, and wanted to protect them." Residents of Rock Haven, California linked their town's identity to the forest that...
Feb 17, 20217 min read
Values-Based Emergency Management Will Make Communities More Resilient
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly's disaster declaration yesterday to address cold-driven energy cost increases is an unmistakable...
Feb 8, 20215 min read
The Good and the Bad of False Alerts
Three years ago, my family and I found ourselves in the midst of what may be the worst false alert in modern times. It was just days into...
