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Subject:

The Challenge of Trump to disaster reduction and the capacity of FEMA and city emergency and resilience management

From:

Ben Wisner <[log in to unmask]>

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Sat, 28 Jan 2017 18:59:40 -0500

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text/plain (20 lines) , Urban challenges and opportunities for FEMA during the Trump administration -- 27 January 2017.docx (20 lines)

Dear colleagues and friends,

Seven co-authors and I have written a brief paper on the challenges likely to be faced by emergency management, especially by FEMA and in so-called Sanctuary Cities (where there is no cooperation with federal officials in identifying undocumented immigrants). I attach the full paper (9 pages). If you have questions, want to help with the longer term work of forecasting/ modeling the impact of Trump policies on vulnerability/ capacity and mitigation, or if your server rejects the attachment, do write me directly at [log in to unmask]

In short, some Trump policy decisions have the potential to affect disaster risk in the United States and have direct and indirect impacts on FEMA’s operations in urban spaces. For instance, reductions in public entitlement programs can increase vulnerability and reduce capacities to cope and to recover among the poorest and most marginalized urban residents. This will hit women, children, older people, people living with disabilities and various religious and ethnic/ racial groups particularly hard. One only as to keep an eye on the attack on the water sacred (and physiologically necessary) to native Americans in North Dakota to see what is likely to happen. Relaxed environmental regulation can intensify hazards and cascading hazard impacts. Policies based on denial of climate science will likely accelerate the impact of climate-related hazards in some highly exposed urban areas within the administration’s four-year term. Trump has already attempted to censor EPA scientists and others. Public access to federal science data is under threat. Devolving risk management more fully to state level can make it more difficult to manage trans-boundary risks. Privatizing prevention, response, and recovery can make it more difficult for the poor to access the services they need. Blocking federal funding to Sanctuary Cities can reduce their ability to manage emergencies effectively. Xenophobic rhetoric and aggressive pursuit of an anti-immigrant policy will likely drive undocumented residents ‘underground’ and make them less accessible to care providers in cities and reduce illegals’ participation in emergency preparedness programs. 

Read our full paper for more detail.

As scientists, researchers, activists, practitioners and policy makers, teachers and journalists, we can and must resist.

El pueblo unido jamas sera vencido!

Cheers,

BEN

Dr. Ben Wisner
Visiting Professor, Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London, UK
& Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, USA

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