2024 Chapters (Layout Features)

Navigating Climate Disasters: Climate and Your Mind

DeVincenzo, Joshua L.; Jah, Syeda Kainaat

This chapter explores how climate change and an evolving risk landscape impact disaster survivors and frontline responders, particularly emergency managers, who fall within both categories. Disasters pose strong emotional and cognitive challenges for all those who experience them. Using emergency managers as a case study, we examine climatological disasters and the process of transformation through social and cognitive disruptors. As climate change intensifies, we encourage robust support networks and investment in the mental health and well-being of those on the front lines of climatological disasters.