Critical Releases in Homeland Security: July 31, 2019

From the Document: "The '2019 National Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA): Overview and Methodology' provides an in-depth description of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) approach to completing a national-level risk assessment. The intended audience is emergency management officials engaged in risk assessment at the community and Federal level, as well as other practitioners in the private sector or academia."

From the Document: "This study uses statistical, geophysical, and economic models to explore the mechanisms by which climate change could affect future costs of farm safety net programs to the Federal Government. This approach first simulates the potential impact of climate change on yields of major commodities, then quantifies the implications of yield change on planting decisions and prices, which in turn affects the cost of risk management programs. This allows for analysis of three different pathways by which cost increases could occur: (1) the direct impact of climate on yield risk, (2) the indirect effect of yield risk on price risk, and (3) the impact of changed average yield, production, and price on the total value insured (liabilities). While farm safety net policies change over time, this study uses the current version of the FCIP's [Federal Crop Insurance Program] Revenue Protection program as a heuristic: a program that reduces both yield and price risk as past programs have, and as future policies may."

From the Introduction: "Using data from the School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS), this report presents findings both on crime and violence in U.S. public schools and on the practices and programs schools have implemented to promote school safety. [...] The findings presented in this report are based on a nationally representative, stratified, random sample of 4,803 U.S. public schools. [...] The purpose of this report is to introduce new NCES [National Center for Education Statistics] data through the presentation of tables containing descriptive information. The tables in this report contain totals and percentages generated from bivariate cross-tabulation procedures."

From the Purpose: "This document supports state, local, tribal, and territorial partners in planning for evacuation and/or shelter-in-place protective actions. It summarizes characteristics that jurisdictions should consider when planning for evacuation and/or shelter-in-place operations and builds on 'Comprehensive Preparedness Guide (CPG) 101: Developing and Maintaining Emergency Operations Plans' by providing unique considerations for development of evacuation and shelterin-place plans. In addition, this document contains job aids and checklists that jurisdictions can customize to meet their needs for all disasters regardless of scale."