Realizing Resilience
Resilience is a term ubiquitously used to gauge how communities fare during and following disasters. Academics and practitioners see resilience as a critical driver of …
Disaster Response & Recovery
Using System Dynamics for Decision Support in Emergency Response: Asset Deployment to Minimize Fatalities Following a Mass Casualty Event
Tom Mackin proposes using system dynamics in a computer-aided approach to creating a maximally efficient patient triage and transport system during a mass casualty event. …
Disaster Economics
A collection of resources focused on the economic impacts of natural and other disasters. These impacts can be felt in a number of ways. “Capital …
How Should the National Guard Be Employed for The Next National Disaster?
Paul Jara discusses the complexity involved in activating DoD, DHS and National Guard resources in a multi-state disaster like COVID. While it has become commonplace …
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Disaster Fatigue
A collection of resources focused on disaster fatigue of first responders. Described by Fresno County Director of Behavioral Health Dawan Utecht, “Disaster fatigue is a …
Continuing Conversation: Housing and Shelter During a Pandemic
Join CHDS for a continuing conversation about the challenges and emerging model practices for housing, sheltering, and congregate population management during the pandemic.
Homeland Security Affairs: Special COVID Issue
The issue features eleven essays which chronicle agency and jurisdictional responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and the lessons learned thus far. The essays focus on how …
HSDL COVID-19 Resource Archive
The Homeland Security Digital Library COVID-19 Resource Archive brings together documents from agencies and organizations that capture the environment, debates, and hard realities affecting governmental …
CHDS Alumni Network: COVID-19 Information Sharing Summaries
A weekly resource summary of COVID-19 information, policies, and emerging smart practices shared amongst the CHDS Community. From May 22, 2020 From May 15, 2020 …
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Governmental Decision-Making During a Pandemic
Decisions are being made every day to close and re-open the economy. Travel restrictions are in place in some areas but not in others, beaches are …
CHDS-NEMA-IAEM Webinar: Personal, Organizational and Community Resilience
In Part 2 of this two-part series, this webinar focuses on strategies to maximize resilience for ourselves, our organizations, and our communities. Dr. Jackson Nickerson, …
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COVID-19 Reopening
Blueprint for Testing Plans and Rapid Response Programs, Guidelines: Opening Up America Again, How to Restart National Economies During the Coronavirus Crisis, National Coronavirus Response: …