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FEMA Mitigation Best Practices: Planning Paves the Way to Community Resilience
"The residents of coastal Connecticut recognize the value of investing in disaster resistance. Nor'easters and hurricanes bring destructive erosion, storm surge, downed utilities and more. The communities know that 'failing to plan is planning to fail.' In recent years several public meetings have been held to plan, mitigate and adapt to climate change issues that could mean even greater challenges in the years ahead. Participants included town residents, businesses, appointed and elected officials from local, state and federal governments, municipal staff and others. They work together to anticipate change, plan for their future and seize every chance to take action to reduce their vulnerabilities."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Silver Jackets [website]
"Silver Jackets teams in states across the United States bring together multiple state, federal, and sometimes tribal and local agencies to learn from one another in reducing flood risk and other natural disasters. By applying their shared knowledge, the teams enhance response and recovery efforts when such events do occur. While some states do not use the 'Silver Jackets' name, there are a growing number of states applying the Silver Jackets approach - the ultimate goal is a state-led interagency team in every state. No single agency has all the answers, but leveraging multiple programs and perspectives can provide a cohesive solution. Although each state Silver Jackets team is unique, common agency participants include state agencies with mission areas of hazard mitigation, emergency management, floodplain management, natural resources management or conservation, etc. Federal participation typically includes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Emergency Management Agency and often others such as the National Weather Service and the U.S. Geological Survey."
Silver Jackets
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Gas Distribution Pipeline Integrity Management: Enforcement Guidance: 49 CFR Part 192 - Subpart P
"The materials contained in this document consist of guidance, techniques, procedures and other information for internal use by the PHMSA [U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration] pipeline safety enforcement staff. This guidance document describes the practices used by PHMSA pipeline safety investigators and other enforcement personnel in undertaking their compliance, inspection, and enforcement activities. This document is U.S. Government property and is to be used in conjunction with official duties. The Federal pipeline safety regulations (49 CFR [Code of Federal Regulations] Parts 190-199) discussed in this guidance document contains legally binding requirements. This document is not a regulation and creates no new legal obligations. The regulation is controlling. The materials in this document are explanatory in nature and reflect PHMSA's current application of the regulations in effect at the time of the issuance of the guidance. In preparing an enforcement action alleging a probable violation, an allegation must always be based on the failure to take a required action (or taking a prohibited action) that is set forth directly in the language of the regulation. An allegation should never be drafted in a manner that says the operator 'violated the guidance.' Nothing in this guidance document is intended to diminish or otherwise affect the authority of PHMSA to carry out its statutory, regulatory or other official functions or to commit PHMSA to taking any action that is subject to its discretion. Nothing in this document is intended to and does not create any legal or equitable right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law by any person or organization against PHMSA, its personnel, State agencies or officers carrying out programs authorized under Federal law."
United States. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
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Terrorism Research and Analysis Consortium [website]
The Terrorism Research and Analysis Consortium webpage stems from the internet resources on terrorism. From the "About TRAC" page: "Created by The Beacham Group, LLC, Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium (TRAC) is a uniquely comprehensive resource for the study of political violence of all kinds. In cooperation with a team of 2800 experts, TRAC gathers the best information for exploration of this topic by faculty, scholars, students, government and defense professionals, as well as the general public. TRAC provides researchers in the fields of terrorism studies, political science, international relations, sociology, criminal justice, philosophy and history with content that enables intellectual clarity on a highly complex topic. […] With over 6,000 (and expanding) web pages of information, 3,800 group profiles, and 2,800 consortium members, TRAC provides many ways to easily access information. TRAC is continually updated with the most current terrorism 'news' of the day - sorted from newest to oldest. Chatter Control 'news' comes for numerous sources: well known international news organizations, regional newspapers, blogs, think tank releases, terrorist group communiqués and under the radar commentary. […] TRAC's publishing center provides an opportunity for professionals to publish their material to a worldwide audience. TRAC's review board approves topics that are not part of the commissioned core group of articles - to allow for maximum coverage of the constantly fluid topic of terrorism."
Beacham, Walton, 1943-
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Records of Rights: David M. Rubenstein Gallery of the National Archives [website]
This website from the National Archives David M. Rubenstein Gallery displays an online exhibit of the documentation of American rights activism. These documents include, but are not limited to: the Bill of Rights, Magna Carta, and the Federal Prohibition Act. From the "Exhibit Concept" section of the "Museum Exhibit" tab: "The rights and freedoms embodied in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights did not initially apply to all Americans. Martin Luther King, Jr. described them as 'a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.' For generations, various groups have struggled to 'cash that check.' 'Records of Rights' showcases documents from the holdings of the National Archives to illustrate how Americans have endeavored to define, secure, and protect their rights." Three gallery sections are available: "'Bending Towards Justice' examines how our nation and individual citizens struggled to reconcile the conflict between the promise of freedom and the realities of slavery and racism. 'Remembering the Ladies' chronicles women's efforts to gain the full rights of citizens and achieve economic self-determination. 'Yearning to Breathe Free' explores the notion of America as a nation of immigrants and the enduring debates on the rights of newcomers."
United States. National Archives and Records Administration
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Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Strategic Planning Tool
"The Strategic Planning Tool was developed to assist in assessing a community's gang problem and planning strategies to deal with it. Although originally created for cities participating in the OJJDP [Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention] Gang Reduction Program, this tool can be used by any community. The four interrelated components of the tool are described below. They can be used separately or in sequence, depending on the user's needs. The Planning and Implementation, Risk Factors, and Program Matrix components provide information for any community, while the Community Resource Inventory component is site-specific. In other words, the user creates a password-protected database and populates it with information on local resources."
United States. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
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CIA at War: A Photographic Essay
"The following photographic essay tells a story of CIA officers in war. It contains portraits of CIA men and women as well as still-life photographs of historical artifacts. The story begins in WWII and continues through the present. While the poses in the portraits and the still-life arrangements were orchestrated by our photographer, the people and objects are authentic. Portrait subjects dressed in their own clothes and were photographed holding the tools they used or personal items from the wars and conflict zones they served in. The still-life tableaux were composed of objects from CIA's museum and private collections. The curator's notes that follow the photographic essay describe the use and provenance of the objects shown and also as much of their history as can be revealed of the people in the portraits."
United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Wilder, Ursula M.; Hiley, Toni L.; Garfield, Peter . . .
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United States Coast Guard Auxiliary [website]
"Established by Congress in 1939 under title 14, Part 23 of the U.S. Code, the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary is Semper Paratus (Always Ready). The Auxiliary operates in safety and security patrols, search and rescue, mass casualty or disasters, pollution response and patrols, homeland security, recreational boating safety, commercial fishing and vessel exams, platforms for boarding parties and recruit for all service in the Coast Guard. In addition to the above, the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary operates in any mission as directed by the Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard or Secretary of Homeland Security."
United States. Coast Guard Auxiliary
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Piracy-Studies.org: The Research Portal for Maritime Security [website]
From the "About" section of the website: "Piracy Studies is a research portal for the study of contemporary piracy and maritime security that facilitates inter-disciplinary collaboration and makes academic research on piracy and maritime security available to a wider audience. The portal provides a space for sharing academic resources related to the study of piracy and maritime security and publishes short research-based comments on contemporary developments or recent research results. The portal is edited by a team of researchers that started to work on African piracy in 2009. The portal is currently hosted at Cardiff University, Wales, UK and is partially sponsored by a grant by the Economic and Social Research Council [ES/K008358/1]."
Piracy Studies
Bueger, Christian; Stockbruegger, Jan
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National Search and Rescue Committee [website]
"The National Search and Rescue Committee is a federal-level committee formed to coordinate civil search and rescue (SAR) matters of interagency interest within the United States. Member agencies include the Departments of Defense, Commerce, Transportation, Interior and Homeland Security, the Federal Communications Commission and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration."
National Search and Rescue Committee (U.S.)
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U.S. Air Force Social Media [website]
"The directory is a one-stop shop of official Air Force social media pages across various social media sites."
United States. Air Force
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Joint Publication 1-05: Religious Affairs in Joint Operations [November 20, 2013]
"This publication has been prepared under the direction of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS). It sets forth joint doctrine to govern the activities and performance of the Armed Forces of the United States in joint operations and provides the doctrinal basis for US military coordination with other US Government departments and agencies during operations and for US military involvement in multinational operations. It provides military guidance for the exercise of authority by combatant commanders and other JFCs [Joint Force Commander] and prescribes joint doctrine for operations, education, and training. It provides military guidance for use by the Armed Forces in preparing their appropriate plans. It is not the intent of this publication to restrict the authority of the JFC from organizing the force and executing the mission in a manner the JFC deems most appropriate to ensure unity of effort in the accomplishment of the overall objective."
United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Aid Worker Security Database
This interactive database allows users to access information by varying fields. From the website: "The Aid Worker Security Database (AWSD) records major incidents of violence against aid workers, with incident reports from 1997 through the present. Initiated in 2005, to date the AWSD remains the single most comprehensive global source of this data, providing a much-needed quantitative evidence base for analysis of the changing security environment for civilian aid operations."
United States. Agency for International Development
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U.S. Army Social Media [website]
"This site is designed to serve as a consolidated registry and resource for all information regarding official Army presences on public social media sites. All sites located on this page have been reviewed and approved by the Office of the Chief of Public Affairs and are subject to all Army policies and guidelines."
United States. Army
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Immigration and Citizenship Data
This is the Immigration and Citizenship Data page of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) website. The Tools and Resources available through this page include: petitions, applications, and other important immigration and citizenship forms. "USCIS receives and adjudicates approximately 6 million petitions and applications annually from individuals and employers. These petitions and applications typically allow foreign nationals to stay in United States as lawful permanent residents (LPR) or immigrants, to stay temporarily to work as nonimmigrants for some other purpose, or to obtain U.S. citizenship. These reports generally provide summary data on the number of applications or petitions received, approved, denied and pending. In addition, certain tables list the USCIS office responsible for the adjudication. For Information on the number and characteristics of persons granted LPR and citizenship status, please refer to data and reports published by the DHS Office of Immigration Statistics at http://www.dhs.gov/Immigration-statistics. Additionally, see the Electronic Reading Room for frequently requested statistics. The information on this page is organized based on the benefits provided to individuals: 1) Family Based; 2) Employment Based; 3) Humanitarian; 4) Citizenship and Naturalization; 5) Frequently Requested Statistics; 6) All Forms; and 7) Archives."
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
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LLIS Innovative Practice: SR 530 Mudslide and Flooding: Using Social Media to Communicate Information During a Disaster
From the Summary: "The SR 530 mudslide and flooding in Washington state destroyed a community, blocked a highway and cut off towns upriver. Snohomish County used social media from the beginning of the disaster to share relevant, credible public information with the community and media. Social media proved invaluable in providing timely information to a broad audience and managing rumor control."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Fact Sheet: Department of Justice Actions to Address the Influx of Migrants Crossing the Southwest Border in the United States
This is a Fact Sheet that compliments the July 9, 2014, Department of Justice announcement, "Department of Justice Announces New Priorities to Address Surge of Migrants Crossing into the U.S." From the Department of Justice Website: "Deputy Attorney General James Cole announced today that the Justice Department will implement a series of steps to help address the influx of migrants crossing the southern border of the United States. These include refocusing immigration court resources to adjudicate the cases of recent migrants; providing support and training to help address violence in Central America; and redoubling efforts to work with other federal agencies and the Mexican government to investigate and prosecute those who smuggle migrants to the United States. 'Individuals who embark on the perilous journey from Central America to the United States are subject to violent crime, abuse, and extortion as they rely on dangerous human smuggling networks to transport them through Central America and Mexico,' Deputy Attorney General Cole said. 'We have an obligation to provide humanitarian care for children and adults with children who are apprehended on our borders, but we also must do whatever we can to stem the tide of this dangerous migration pattern. The efforts we are announcing today are intended to address the challenges of this influx in a humane, efficient and timely way.' Cole announced that the department's Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) will refocus its resources to prioritize cases involving migrants who have recently crossed the southwest border and whom DHS has placed into removal proceedings -- so that these cases are processed both quickly and fairly to enable prompt removal in appropriate cases, while ensuring the protection of asylum seekers and others."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of Public Affairs
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Assessing Health Vulnerability to Climate Change: A Guide for Health Departments
"The changing climate is linked to increases in a wide range of non-communicable and infectious diseases. There are complex ways in which climatic factors (like temperature, humidity, precipitation, extreme weather events, and sea-level rise) can directly or indirectly affect the prevalence of disease. Identification of communities and places vulnerable to these changes can help health departments assess and prevent associated adverse health impacts. The Climate and Health Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed the Building Resilience Against Climate Effects (BRACE) framework to help health departments prepare for and respond to climate change. The BRACE framework is a five-step process that helps health departments to understand how climate has and will affect human health, and enables health departments to employ a systematic, evidence-based process to customize their response to local circumstances. The first step of the BRACE framework focuses on anticipating climate impacts and assessing associated health vulnerabilities. This document provides a suggested sequence of steps that health departments can undertake to assess such health vulnerabilities associated with climate change[.]"
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); National Center for Environmental Health (U.S.); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects
Manangan, Arie Ponce; Uejio, Christopher K.; Saha, Shubhayu . . .
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Southern Group of State Foresters: Wildfire Risk Assessment Portal [website]
"SouthWRAP [South Wildfire Risk Assessment Portal] is the primary mechanism for the SGSF [Southern Group of State Foresters] to make wildfire risk information available and create awareness about wildfire issues for the Southern states"
Southern Group of State Foresters
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2014 Air Combat Command Strategic Plan: Securing the High Ground
From the foreword: "This 2014 Air Combat Command Strategic Plan is my two-fold guidance to: (1) optimally organize, train, equip, and provide combat ready forces and (2) manage and develop the capabilities required to secure the high ground for our military forces to deliver dominant combat airpower for our Nation. This guidance is provided at a difficult time as Air Combat Command confronts challenging fiscal limits to the continued pursuit of our legacy of excellence. Current budgetary constraints affect our ability to sufficiently organize, train, equip, and provide Air Combat Command forces to meet the needs of the Joint warfighter and ensure the security of the American people. This challenge will likely continue, and possibly intensify until our elected leaders address the national debt and the resulting fiscal implications. At the same time, these challenges are no more daunting than those faced by Arnold, Doolittle, or Kenney during World War II. As they did in a different time, our Airmen must meet today's challenges with innovative solutions in order to continue to provide dominant combat airpower for our nation."
United States. Air Force. Air Combat Command
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Global Detention Project [website]
"The Global Detention Project (GDP) is an inter-disciplinary research initiative that investigates the role detention plays in states' responses to global migration, with a special focus on the policies and physical infrastructures of detention. The project is based at the Graduate Institute's Global Migration Centre and has received financial support from the Open Society Foundations, Zennstrom Philanthropies, the Swiss Network for International Studies, and the Geneva International Academic Network. Migration-related detention is the practice of detaining--typically on administrative (as opposed to criminal) grounds--asylum seekers and irregular immigrants until they can be deported, their identities established, or their claims adjudicated. Because many national legal systems do not have clear rules for administrative detention, migration detainees often face legal uncertainties, including lack of access to the outside world, limited possibilities of challenging detention through the courts, and/or absence of limitations on the duration of detention. To assess the growth and evolution of detention institutions, project researchers are creating a comprehensive database of detention sites that categorises detention facilities along several dimensions, including security level, bureaucratic chain of command, facility type (is a given site an exposed camp, a dedicated migrant detention facility, or a common prison), spatial segregation (are there separate cells for criminals and administrative detainees, for women and men), and size. This data is gradually being ported to the GDP website in the form of maps, lists, and country profiles. Eventually, the project intends to make the entire database fully interactive with the website."
Global Detention Project
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National Institute of Mental Health [website]
"The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is the lead federal agency for research on mental disorders. NIMH is one of the 27 Institutes and Centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the nation's medical research agency. NIH is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The mission of NIMH is to transform the understanding and treatment of mental illnesses through basic and clinical research, paving the way for prevention, recovery, and cure. For the Institute to continue fulfilling this vital public health mission, it must foster innovative thinking and ensure that a full array of novel scientific perspectives are used to further discovery in the evolving science of brain, behavior, and experience. In this way, breakthroughs in science can become breakthroughs for all people with mental illnesses."
National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)
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Lessons Learned: Mass Care Response: Codifying Resource Request Protocols Across Partner Jurisdictions
"The After-Action Report (AAR) on the response to the August 2011 Tropical Storm Irene in Franklin County, Massachusetts, revealed that responders did not employ common protocols or procedures for requesting resources from other responders. The jurisdiction developed processes and forms to create a uniform resource request system that includes back-up request procedures, should the primary systems fail."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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World Prison Brief (WPB) [website]
"The World Prison Brief is an online database providing free access to information on prisons and the use of imprisonment around the world. It is a unique resource, offering a foundation for evidence-based development of prison policy and practice globally. [...] In addition to providing access to the World Prison Brief database, this website holds other publications by ICPR and its original host, the International Centre for Prison Studies (which was formed in 1997 and merged with ICPR in 2014). These include the World Prison Population List (and complementary lists on Female Imprisonment and Pretrial/Remand Imprisonment), the handbook on A Human Rights Approach to Prison Management, and bimonthly editions of the International Prison News Digest. See the 'Research and publications' page."
Institute for Criminal Policy Research
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Study in the States [website]
"The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) launched the 'Study in the States' initiative to enhance our nation's economic, scientific and technological competitiveness by finding new ways to encourage the most talented international students to study and learn about expanded post-graduate opportunities in the United States. This initiative includes a focus on streamlining the student visa process, enhancing coordination among government agencies and keeping international students better informed about student visa rules and regulations. 'Study in the States' serves as an innovative information hub for the international student community by bringing together the various federal agencies that play a role in implementing our student visa and exchange visitor programs, including the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Department of State's Bureau of Consular Affairs and Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The site offers the latest information and resources for international students and school officials through blog posts, news articles, interactive guides, and videos."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture (ASREC) [website]
"The Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture exists to promote interdisciplinary scholarship on religion through conferences, workshops, newsletters, websites, working papers, teaching, and research. ASREC supports all manner of social-scientific methods, but seeks especially to stimulate work based on economic perspectives and the rational choice paradigm."
Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture
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Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health
"'Disaster Lit: the Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health' is a database of links to disaster medicine and public health documents available on the Internet at no cost. Documents include expert guidelines, research reports, conference proceedings, training classes, fact sheets, websites, databases, and similar materials selected from over 700 organizations for a professional audience. Materials selected are from non-commercial publishingsources and supplement disaster-related resources from PubMed (biomedical journal literature) and MedlinePlus (health information for the public)."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
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Military Sexual Assault & Harassment [website]
This is the U.S. Army War College Library's LibGuide that contains articles regarding sexual assault and harassment. Journal Articles range from 1990 to the present. Some reports require specific clearance in order to view.
Army War College (U.S.)
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Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Safety and Health Topics: Ebola [website]
This webpage focuses on the Safety and Health topic: Ebola virus (Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) (sometimes called Ebola Virus Disease, or EVD). From the Introduction: "The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) categorizes Ebola virus as a Category A select agent. This group includes high-priority agents that pose a risk to national security because they can be easily disseminated or transmitted from person to person; result in high mortality rates and have the potential for major public health impact; might cause public panic and social disruption; and require special action for public health preparedness. Because symptoms of EHF may appear consistent with many other viral illnesses (e.g., influenza, malaria), diagnosis and treatment of EHF could be delayed during an outbreak. Employers of workers at risk for exposure to Ebola virus in their work environments should be familiar with methods for hazard recognition, control, and prevention. This web page provides information about Ebola viruses and EHF for workers and employers. The web page includes sections on: [1] Background, including the origins of Ebola virus and EHF; [2] Hazard recognition; [3] Medical information; [4] Standards for protecting workers from Ebola virus; [5] Control and prevention of EHF; and [6] Additional resources."
United States. Occupational Safety and Health Administration; United States. Department of Labor
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United States Arctic Research Commission [website]
The United States Arctic Research Commission (USARC) is an independent agency that advises the President and Congress on domestic and international Arctic research through recommendations and reports. "The Commission's principal duties are (1) to establish the national policy, priorities, and goals necessary to construct a federal program plan for basic and applied scientific research with respect to the Arctic, including natural resources and materials, physical, biological and health sciences, and social and behavioral sciences; (2) to promote Arctic research, to recommend Arctic research policy, and to communicate our research and policy recommendations to the President and the Congress; (3) to work with the National Science and Technology Council (as per Presidential Memorandum and White House guidance) and the National Science Foundation as the lead agency responsible for implementing the Arctic research policy and to support cooperation and collaboration throughout the Federal Government; (4) to give guidance to the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) to develop national Arctic research projects and a five-year plan to implement those projects; and (5) to interact with Arctic residents, international Arctic research programs and organizations and local institutions including regional governments in order to obtain the broadest possible view of Arctic research needs. - See more at: https://www.arctic.gov/about_usarc.html#sthash.Fs9wvFfR.dpuf"
United States. Arctic Research Commission
