Partnering with animal welfare groups can help emergency managers put pets in the disaster preparedness and recovery equation.

Emergency managers disagree about how useful the CEM certification is to individuals and to the profession.

The director of the Natural Hazards Research Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Kathleen Tierney, shares information about her research on the social impacts of extreme events.

The legislation provides spectrum and funding, allows public safety input and ensures a national governance structure.

We spend most of our time on preparedness and only 1 to 2 percent of our time on the disaster response phase — which can last years following a large emergency.