160: Disasters Aren’t Natural: Managing Catastrophes + The Climate Crisis | Dr. Samantha Montano

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🗓️ 3 December 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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We’re joined by our favorite disasterologist, Dr. Samantha Montano! We get into everything you’ve ever wanted to know about living with stronger hurricanes, tornados, heatwaves… and just how we can protect our communities. We speak today about the event that first encouraged her to get involved in the space – recovery in New Orleans immediately following Hurricane Katrina and the Levee Failure. Samantha educates of the phases of Disaster Management (and what can go right or wrong in each one!), and gaps in our current legal and political systems when it comes to actively preparing for and mitigating events that are often incorrectly referred to as ‘natural disasters.’ We also dig deeper into the mismanagement of the covid catastrophe response. Dr. Montano is an assistant professor of emergency management at Massachusetts Maritime Academy. She is the author of Disasterology: Dispatches from The Frontlines of The Climate Crisis published by Park Row. She earned her B.S. in Psychology from Loyola University New Orleans and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Emergency Management from North Dakota State University. * Ep 156: What To Know About Compound Extreme Events (11 mins)* Articles on mentioned New Orleans Lower Ninth Ward home rebuilding; here (NBC) and here (Bloomberg). Take the ECO CHIC end of the year survey here!! Shouldn’t take more than five minutes and will help us create your favorite podcast ever. Find me on: Instagram @ecochicpodcast + @lauraediez, on Facebook, Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.1	Hey, y'all. Welcome back to Eco. Sheik. My name is Laura. I hope you are doing well and having a
0:42.1	really fabulous day. It's so good to have you here today. It's always good to have you here. Let me make
0:47.7	that super clear. But I'm really excited to share today's episode with y'all because it is featuring Dr. Samantha Montana.
0:57.3	I have been following her for quite some time on the internet, and she is someone that I have
1:02.2	really, really wanted to speak to on this show.
1:05.6	And this was a conversation that left me feeling so highly satisfied. Like I learned so much. I felt so
1:13.7	enlightened and like I was thinking more deeply about the systems that I already thought I
1:19.6	knew about. So I think that you're going to really, really like this episode. Before I give you
1:24.4	any more info on today's conversation, let me tell you a little bit about
1:28.4	Sam. Dr. Samantha Montana is currently an assistant professor of emergency management at
1:34.3	Massachusetts Maritime Academy. She teaches courses on disaster preparedness, response, recovery,
1:40.0	mitigation. She talks about emergency management, both from a political and legal perspective,
1:46.4	and we also hear a lot about the climate crisis in this context. She became interested in
1:52.6	disasters, first through an experience in New Orleans looking at Hurricane Katrina and the
1:58.9	levy failure, and she and I speak more deeply about that.
2:02.6	And that really prompted her to tailor this career in disaster management.
2:07.1	Her educational background is a degree in psychology from Loyola University, New Orleans,
2:12.4	and she has her master's in Ph.D. in emergency management from North Dakota State University.
2:18.1	I think that's something that draws me so much to Sam's work is probably the public
2:26.2	engagement aspect of this. I feel like we don't hear a lot about emergency management in
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