Below are resources that we have found helpful. For books, please support a local bookstore!
| Categories | Resources |
| Personal Preparedness | Individual Resilience Just in Case: How to be Self-Sufficient When the Unexpected Happens by Kathy Harrison The Disaster-Ready Home: A Step-by-Step Emergency Preparedness Manual for Sheltering in Place by Creek Stewart (Jan 2022) The FEMA Disaster Preparedness Series (You Tube) The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes– and Why by Amanda Ripley |
| Neighborhood Preparedness | Building Resilience: Social Capital in Post Disaster Recovery by Daniel P. Aldrich |
| National Policy | National Preparedness: A Summary and Selected Issues by National Congressional Research Service. Whole Community Approach to Emergency Management |
| Neighborhoods | Better Together: Restoring the American Community by Robert D. Putnam |
| Emergency & Disaster Management Programs | Emergency Management: Concepts and Strategies for Effective Programs by Lucien G. Canton (2020, Second Edition) NFPA 1600: Standard on Continuity, Emergency/Disaster and Crisis Management from the National Fire Protection Association Emergency Management Accreditation Program |
| General | Disasters: A Sociological Approach by Kathleen Tierney The Big Ones: How National Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We can Do About Them) by Dr. Lucy Jones (2019) Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire by Lizzie Johnson (Aug 2021) Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy by Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano (April 2021) |
| Climate Change | The Urban Fix: Resilient Cities in the War Against Climate Change, Heat Islands and Overpopulation by Doug Kelbaugh |