Emergency Management since the Florence Flood – Federal Programs and National Initiatives
Speaker
Andrew Robb, Head of Special Format Conservation Section, Conservation Division, Library of Congress
April 28, 2016
Video
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About the Lecture:
NOAA GOES-13 satellite image (Oct. 29, 2012) of Hurricane Sandy centered off of Maryland and Virginia. Image Credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
This lecture is a lead-in to the General Session talk Emergency Management Since the Florence Flood -- The Crooked Timber of Progress at the American Institute for Conservation's 44th Annual Meeting in Montréal (May 2016) and also part of the Library's 2016 programming for Preservation Week.
The state of preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation resources related to the emergency management of cultural materials has improved significantly since the Florence Flood of 1966. There have been many noteworthy accomplishments over the past fifty years on the national and Federal level. In the United States Federal emergency plans now include cultural resources and a variety of national organizational structures such as the Heritage Emergency National Task Force, the National Heritage Responders (formerly AIC-CERT), the Alliance for Response, and WESTPAS now exist to harness the experience and knowledge we have fifty years after Florence. The presentation will include case studies of recent disasters to demonstrate how cultural resources are integrated into the broader national and Federal emergency management process.
Related Resources
Preservation Week 2016 at the Library of Congress: Special documentary film screening, Florence: Days of Destruction (Franco Zeffirelli, 1966)
