When sudden wildfires ravaged the Hawaiian island of Maui this August, one of the first casualties was the local telecommunications grid. As people scrambled to escape the deadliest U.S. wildfire in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...