Emergency Management

2023 — This is a motion toward reconsidering the importance of the Environmental Justice Principles in my engagement with issues that impact our children. At the time of writing, between 2010 and 2012, I was a new parent and struggling to dance between my contrarian stance, the need to feed…

By: Mrs. EmilyJane Zahreddine, MA, MPA As the impact of climate change becomes increasingly severe and more frequent natural disasters occur, emergency managers have become the first line of defense in responding to the most significant threat to our homeland. …

We need a better approach than what we’ve been using. — In the past few years, i’ve been working on better defining how technology and emergency management (EM) can play well together. It is a project that feels mostly like trying to get fire to be wet or convincing the color orange to be purple. Current technology is often bloated in…

The seventh “Kindness Train” that departed from Ankara with the coordination of the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) reached Afghanistan’s Herat province on Monday, Anadolu Agency reports. According to the report, Sinan Ilhan, Turkiye’s Consulate-General to Herat, welcomed the train with AFAD and Turkish Red Crescent (Kızılay) officials. The train carried over 500 tons of humanitarian aid, which would be distributed to families in need in various provinces over the next few days, the report says.

It isn’t about learning to write code or compile — One of the most pernicious issues aspects of the concept of, “Technology in Emergency Management” is that most of the products created aren’t well-conceived for the use context emergency management needs. Smashing a shiny new piece of software into every Emergency Operations Center in the country is a lot like…

And other ways one could help others find one’s position in the thick of things. — My journey into how people learn and know things has been fraught with peril, confusion, fury, and a variety of having to deal with weird decisions authors make while writing these texts. However, despite those setbacks, there are also moments of enlightenment. …

Reaching an audience that doesn’t want to be an audience in an effort to teach skills that audience doesn’t understand, want, or acknowledge. — Recently, I signed a book contract. I’ve never really wanted to write a book, nor have I wanted to deal with the logistics of it. As an academic in the sociotechnical, my folks do not tend to really write…books. But as someone struggling to really enjoy academia, I find myself…