The full scale of the devastation caused by Hurricane Ian is still being assessed as rescue operations remain underway in Florida, but the storm has caused catastrophic damage to life, property, and infrastructure across a wide swath of the state, and it has made landfall in the Carolinas. 

The National Academies have many resources aimed at better understanding hurricanes and other natural disasters and extreme events, how climate change may be affecting their intensity and frequency, and how communities can become more resilient to them.

Related Resources

• Emergency Preparedness / Disaster Management Collection
• Flood Resilience: Preparedness and Recovery Collection
• Social Capital and Social Connectedness Collection
• Equitable and Resilient Infrastructure Investments (2022)
• Investing in Resilient Infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico: Proceedings of a Workshop (2022)
• Investing in Transportation Resilience: A Framework for Informed Choices (2021)
• Strengthening Post-Hurricane Supply Chain Resilience: Observations from Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria (2020)
• Building and Measuring Community Resilience: Actions for Communities and the Gulf Research Program (2019)
• Understanding and Predicting the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current (2018)
• Understanding the Long-Term Evolution of the Coupled Natural-Human Coastal System: The Future of the Gulf Coast (2018)
• Attribution of Extreme Weather Events in the Context of Climate Change (2016)
• Airport Emergency Post-Event Recovery Practices (2015)
• Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative (2012)