Emerging Trends in Emergency Management and Homeland Security
2025 has been a year of turmoil when it comes to emergency management. In thispodcast we will be discussing how the future of emergency management will beshaped from one of the leaders in the professi...
28 Jan 1h 7min
A Parametric Approach to Disaster Recovery
As we look to the future, we need to find new ways of providing financial relief when accidents and disasters damage or destroy private and public property. This podcast looks at the parametric insura...
22 Jan 49min
A City Manager Talks Government
In this podcast we will examine different forms of governance for cities, evaluating the pros and cons of each. We’ll also delve into how civic leaders think about the first responder community, emerg...
14 Jan 42min
Legal Accountability Following Wildfires
The 2025 Eaton Fire alone destroyed more than 9,000 structures and claimed 19 lives in Los Angeles County. Investigations by federal agencies and independent experts traced the fire's origin to Southe...
7 Jan 49min
Climate. Weather Extremes. Short Term Winter Forecast
Renny Vandewege GM of climate and weather at DTN, has two decades of meteorological experience, educating business leaders on weather-induced disasters. DTN has an Operational Decisioning Platform tha...
23 Dec 202546min
Disaster Costs Will Put State Budgets at Risk
The Trump Administration has been making statements since January 2025 that they, meaning both the President and the Secretary of Homeland Security, want to shift disaster costs, beginning with disast...
9 Dec 202547min
Seismic Retrofitting of Buildings
It has been decades since the last significant earthquake in the United States. Yet, there are earthquake risks across the USA. In this podcast we learn about how homeowners and businesses can take pr...
20 Nov 202552min
Better Coordination between Government and Nonprofits
Nonprofits play a critical role in responding to and recovering from disasters. Today we will hear from one of those and then we will also have a discussion about how government and nonprofits can ach...
14 Nov 202539min
