The Transformation of Disaster Response

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In the past, we divided the world into left a boom and right a boom. Left a boom is prevention and preparation. We know it's coming or it could come. Right a boom is response recovery and resiliency. That used to be viewed as linear, one and done,. Random and rare. It's a circle now. And so you have to think about the investments you're making in preparation as really being about can this community recover fast enough because it's coming again.

Vermont just got slammed with flash floods, road closures, and evacuations. Harvard’s Juliette Kayyem says the storm reveals how unprepared the US is for the present moment, when natural disasters are more frequent and more intense than ever before.

This episode was produced by Jon Ehrens and Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Amanda Lewellyn, engineered by Michael Raphael, and hosted by Noel King.

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