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Overregulation, Opportunity and Corruption
Overregulation can lead to immense corruption and crimes of opportunity. This fact has been proven throughout history time and again. The most common and notable example is the prohibition era…
Local Government Attorney’s Role in Disaster Preparedness & Response
When disasters strike, the legal issues involved in local government are some of the most misunderstood and confusing aspects of the disaster preparation, response and recovery process. This makes the…
Community Engagement and Public Health Preparedness: Santa Rosa County
The Florida Department of Health in Santa Rosa County draws support for planning and preparedness from a diverse network of partners, including county emergency management, state health officials, a regional…
Citizen Centered Disaster Management Strategies
It is a strong strategy to decentralize disaster preparedness back onto the individual and community levels. If bottom-up disaster planning is an approach government wants to pursue, the government …
Planning for the Local Impacts of Climate Migration
Changing climate patterns have the potential to spur significant migration of populations displaced by flooding, economic collapse and other disasters over the next century. While much current policy attention is…
Bringing Cyber Security into Emergency Management
It is no longer possible to engage meaningfully in emergency management or disaster response without thinking of cyber risks and information technology. From wastewater facilities to transportation infrastructure, we…
Collaboration is the Key!
One of the most arduous tasks for 21st century management is emergency management. While many local, city and state governments have seen budget cuts in an effort to make government…
Environmental Justice is a Shared Public Sector Burden
The man-made disaster unfolding in Flint, Michigan is one example of environmental injustice. The decisions made by public officials to move from healthy, treated water to unhealthy, untreated water in…
International Trends in Disaster Assistance
In the Caribbean, for Small Island Developing States (SIDS), there is a substantial risk and vulnerability to natural disasters such as severe storms and hurricanes. SIDS face a range of…
Financial Planning for Local Disasters
Disasters can come as either natural or man-made occurrences. Most certainly, disasters often happen without prior notice to the victims. In 2014, the United States witnessed more than 45 natural…
Kentucky Symposium Examines Past, Present and Future of Voting Rights
Last year marked the 50th anniversary of the original passage of the Voting Rights Act. To acknowledge this pivotal point in history, the University of Kentucky Martin School of Public…