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.
Episode 71: Interview with evolutionary biologist, Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris
Episode 70: Interview with Mark Maslin, Professor of Earth Systems Science, UCL, author of The Human Planet
Episode 69: Interview with Marc Ventresca and Michele Scataglini
Episode 68: Interview with Rachel Dreskin, US Executive Director at Compassion in World Farming
Episode 67: Interview with Ann Pettifor, director of Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME)
Episode 66: Interview with author and filmmaker Helena Norberg-Hodge, founder and director of Local Futures
Episode 65: Interview with Martin Kirk, co-founder /The Rules
Episode 64: The importance of behaviour change to reduce CO2. Interview with CEO of Rare, Brett Jenks
Episode 63: Interview with Peter Barnes, author of Capitalism 3.0
Episode 62: Interview with Daniel Pinchbeck, author of How Soon Is Now: From Personal Initiation to Global Transformation
Episode 61: Interview with Carlota Perez, Centennial Professor of International Development at the London School of Economics
Episode 60: Interview with Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics: seven ways to think like a 21st century economist
Episode 59 Interview, with Ian Gough, Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at University of Bath on the need for new eco-social policies to deal with the environmental crises we are now facing.
Episode 58: Interview with Gillian Caldwell, CEO of Global Witness
Episode 57: Interview with Jeremy Lent, author of The Patterning Instinct
Episode 56: interview with Dr. Jason Hickel, author of The Divide
Episode 55: Professor Daniel Nyberg discusses the challenges companies face maintaining their sustainability commitments to climate change over time
Episode 54: Dr Steve Cohen talks about the Sustainable City
Episode 53: Deep dive on sustainable agricultural supply chains with Tobias Webb, founder of the Innovation Forum, a sustainability events and publishing company based in London.
Episode 52 Interview with Professor Tim Jackson, Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of Surrey and Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP)
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