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When it comes to disaster response, most of us think of first responders as firefighters, police, EMTs, soldiers, and medics. But the very first responders, in the truest sense of the word, are the ...

Penny Gusner is a senior insurance writer and analyst at Forbes Advisor. For more than 20 years, she has been helping consumers learn how insurance laws, data, trends, and coverages affect them. Penny ...

Geographical proximity risk assessment for natural disasters overlooks the role of intercity economic linkages. We showed that spillover effects of natural disasters on intercity economic networks ...

How AI integration and real-time observability are critical in emergency response scenarios.