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 50: Interview with Paul Hawken, co-founder and Executive Director of Project Drawdown
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Episode 48: Interview with Dr Thomas Lovejoy, “the Godfather of Biodiversity.”
Episode 47: Interview with Jeff Goodell on the risks posed by climate induced sea level rises
Episode 46: Interview with Cameron Hepburn, Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of Oxford
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Episode 41: Interview with William McDonough on the Cradle to Cradle economy
Episode 40: Interview with Jay Coen Gilbert on the growth and success of B Corps and how the movement aims to re-define success in business
Episode 39: The future of finance and sustainable capitalism: Interview with David Blood, Senior Partner of Generation Investment Management
Episode 38: Sam Fankhauser, Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE, discusses carbon pricing
Episode 37: Interview with Sabina Alkire, director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI: how to effectively measure poverty using the multidimensional poverty indicator (MPI)
Episode 36: Carbon Brief’s Leo Hickman reviews COP23
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Episode 33: Interview with Scott Tew, executive director of the Center for Energy Efficiency & Sustainability (CEES) at Ingersoll Rand.
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