Along with death and taxes, natural disasters seem to have to become another unpleasant certainty these days. While losses from natural disasters are increasing, insurance costs are ballooning and ...

This year was unusually busy for Army and Air National Guard personnel, with deployments to support natural disaster response and recovery and crime prevention and federal protection missions. The ...

As a result, risk management (including risk assessment) is as critical a strategy in natural disasters as emergency management or response. Risk management involves measures to avoid disasters ...