Femke Mulder

Some aid groups are scrubbing climate change from their websites. Can you spot the difference? 🧵

Brilliant. Love it.

📌❗ #VacancyAlert [in French]! Are you passionate about tackling #climate-related challenges and empowering climate-affected communities in #Africa?

✏ For our work in #Senegal, we are looking for a #PhD candidate. Interested? 👇

🔗 More info and how to apply [in French]: edu.nl/9qypb

If you're a local/state emergency manager who is able and willing to speak on the record to journalists about *gestures around* can you send me a message so I can connect you?

The Hague Humanitarian Studies Centre is excited to announce its two new podcast channels which will host 'The Good Humanitarian'. Go ahead and give us a follow to not miss out!

Did you miss the trailer to season 1? You can now listen on:
1️⃣ Apple Podcasts: edu.nl/xxetw
2️⃣ Spotify: edu.nl/npbd9

Fleeing the LA fires alone on a wheelchair: ‘I had to take my chances’ An evacuation order when the Eaton fire threatened Galen Buckwalter’s Sierra Madre home triggered a nightmare odyssey through chaotic streets

Galen Buckwalter, 68, shared with me his harrowing tale of being forced to flee the Eaton fire alone on his wheelchair through dark streets and fierce winds, dodging debris as fire neared his home.

“In emergencies, disabled people are the last to get services…We have no system. You’re on your own”

Disaster work is often carried out by prisoners – who get paid as little as 14 cents an hour despite dangers Relying on incarcerated workers in emergencies such as the wildfires ravaging parts of the US is a cheap alternative for states. But what protections are there for prisoners?

Incarcerated firefighters are in the news (rightly so), and so I want to shout out the excellent work of my colleague @jcarleepurdum.bsky.social who has been on this beat for a while

Disaster work is often carried out by prisoners
theconversation.com/disaster-wor...

As someone who doesn't do research on fire, but has to talk about--more and more--in courses on environmental science and environmental change, the insight available from people in these starter packs is invaluable: bsky.app/starter-pack... and bsky.app/starter-pack...

This cartoon is from 1930.

It could have been today.

Great initiative! Can you add me to the list?

Disasters are political. Risk creation is political. Risk reduction is political. Emergency management is political. Disaster science is political.

Pretending it isn’t gets people killed and communities destroyed.

Maybe discuss the role of X in UK politics going forward?

Words into Action guidelines: The Science–Policy–Society ecosystem for disaster risk reduction Highlighting the crucial role of science in informing policy decisions, these guidelines aim to assist those aiming to incorporate science into policy processes effectively facilitating risk-informed ...

"Words into Action guidelines: The Science–Policy–Society ecosystem for #DisasterRiskReduction " is for review until 6 Nov. 2024.
Download and provide feedback at www.undrr.org/publication/...

#DRR #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters)

Hello.

This account will be tweeting, retweeting & sharing research, advocacy, policy and general information on the how to increase & ensure the inclusion of #LGBTQIA+ people in #DRR policy and practice.

Feel free to DM any research or policy you'd like us to talk about.

I’m going to put together a disaster/emergency management starter pack.

Let me know if you’d like to be added to it.

Yes please