During this year’s active active hurricane and wildfire season, officials are dealing with the challenge of evacuating and sheltering people in the middle of a pandemic.  A recent workshop examined how disaster preparedness teams must adapt to new realities as extreme weather events coincide with COVID-19.

The National Academies have several collections of publications on disaster planning, response, and recovery:

• Emergency Preparedness / Disaster Management Collection
• Flood Resilience: Preparedness and Recovery Collection
• Earthquakes, Floods, and Natural Disasters Collection
• Weather Warning: How Physics, Data, and Computers Combine to Make Better Prediction Possible

• Extreme Weather
• Planning for Health Disasters in the Transportation Industry
• Building Transportation Supply Chain Resilience After a Pandemic
• Funding Transportation Through the COVID-19 Pandemic

Our Resilient America Program partners with communities across the nation to help build resilience to extreme events, save lives, and reduce the physical and economic costs of disasters. The National Academy of Sciences’ LabX collaborated with the Resilient America Program to develop Extreme Event, an educational tool that allows participants to learn what it takes to build community resilience in various disaster scenarios.

Based On Science provides the most up-to-date, evidence-based information about how global warming and climate change are making some extreme weather events more intense and more frequent.