Tag: Emergency management
Why are people with disabilities left out of disaster planning? | The Stream
As climate change-related disasters proliferate around the world, more countries are strengthening their emergency preparedness. But when it comes to evacuating a flood in a wheelchair, managing schizophrenia medication during a hurricane, or accessing life-saving text messages in a wildfire, people with disabilities continue to be left out of the equation. More than a billion people worldwide live with a disability. According to Oxford University, they are two…