State of Disaster
State of Disaster
Podcast Description
Dispatches from the front lines and behind the scenes of the emergency and disaster management field. Every week, we’ll bring you the most important disaster news, learn from professionals in the field, and dive into emerging issues.
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The podcast delves into critical themes such as local disaster management, risk mitigation, emergency preparedness, and community resilience. Episodes feature topics like funding needs for local emergency operations, collaboration among emergency management professionals, and empowering local managers through the Local Emergency Managers Alliance. Specific episodes discuss emerging issues like capability assessments and marketing strategies for public understanding.
Dispatches from the front lines and behind the scenes of the emergency and disaster management field. Every week, we’ll bring you the most important disaster news, learn from professionals in the field, and dive into emerging issues.
Today’s episode is incredible and as usual, has nothing to do with anything that I did. It just happens that my guest, Brenden Winder, is a fantastic emergency manager and human.
Brenden Winder is the head of emergency management at Christchurch City Council in New Zealand with two decades of experience in the sector. He’s played a pivotal role in the response and recovery efforts following the 2010-11 Canterbury earthquakes, particularly in managing the Christchurch Red Zone. He’s heavily involved in enhancing New Zealand’s emergency management frameworks, focusing on tsunami risk, evacuation planning, and the use of AI in emergency management. He’s deployed domestically and internationally and has co-authored emergency management documents as well. I know you’ll enjoy this episode and I look forward to talking to Brenden again.
I’m going to call this Universal Lessons in Disaster Management because I think if Brenden wrote a book about everything we discussed, it would be one of those mandatory reads for the field, because it’s so applicable.
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