In this episode, Dr Samantha Montana discusses the key ideas and strategies for effective emergency management and the value of taking an all-hazards approach to disasters, which means that the response system is built on common principles that apply across events. Key principles here include coordination, communication, collaboration, cooperation, leadership, and trust with the public.
Dr Montana highlights the limitations of the emergency management system in the US and the need for a more proactive approach to disaster prevention and preparedness. She emphasizes the importance of taking climate change into account when preparing for and responding to disasters. She notes that it may take some time for a full understanding of what climate change means for emergency management to take hold within FEMA and other agencies.
Dr Montano is an assistant professor of emergency management at Massachusetts Maritime Academy. She teaches courses on disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation, vulnerable populations in disaster amongst other topics. Her research interests cut across areas of interest to emergency management. She primarily studies nonprofits, volunteerism, and informal aid efforts in disaster. She is a co-founder of Disaster Researchers for Justice and the Center for Climate Adaptation Research. She is the author of Disasterology: Dispatches from The Frontlines of The Climate Crisispublished in 2021 by Park Row.
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Episode 130: Interview with Professor Stephen Macekura exploring critiques of economic growth across the twentieth-century
Episode 129: Interview with James Cameron, a Friend of COP26, about the prospects for COP26
Episode 128: The Geopolitics of Climate Change: interview with Gerald Butts, Vice Chairman of the political risk consultancy, Eurasia Group
Episode 127: Innovation Forum Founder Toby Webb on building resilient smallholder supply chains and sustainability trends within the food industry
Episode 126: Nigel Topping, the UK's High-Level Climate Action Champion, on COP26
Episode 125: Interview with Jeremy Lent on finding our place in the universe by integrating science and traditional wisdom
Episode 124: Interview with Professor Daniela Gabor on funding the transition to a low carbon economy
Episode 123: interview with economic anthropologist Dr Jason Hickel about his most recent book Less is more: How Degrowth will save the world
Episode 122: Interview with Professor Wendy Brown, author In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of AntiDemocratic politics in the West.
Episode 121: Interview with Kevin Starr, the founder of the Mulago Foundation--which funds high-impact organizations working on alleviating poverty
Episode 120: Interview with Joanna Pocock, author of Surrender, exploring the changing landscape and cultures of the American West
Episode 119: Interview with Dr Jeffrey Kiehl, climate scientist and Jungian analyst
Episode 118: Interview with Professor Rupert Read, former XR spokesperson, author of Parents for a Future
Episode 117: Interview with Dale Jamieson, Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy, New York University on environmental justice.
Episode 116: Interview with Johan Frijns, the director of BankTrack, whose mission is to stop banks from financing harmful business activities.
Episode 115: Interview with John Clark, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University, director of La Terre Institute for Community and Ecology
Episode 114: Professor Tim Lenton discusses Gaia 2.0
Episode 113: Interview with Jagdeesh Rao, Curator - Promise of Commons initiative, and former CEO FES
Episode 112: Interview with Dr. David Loy, Zen teacher, Author of EcoDharma
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