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Emergency Management
and Continuity

Building Resilient and Prepared Communities

At AEDI, our Emergency Management and Continuity team leverages expertise and resources from across its departments—including GIS, Community Planning, State Data Center, and Economic Research—to deliver a whole-community approach to preparedness and resilience. AEDI’s resources allow for a unique economic perspective on all phases of Emergency Management. Together, we aim to strengthen every community in the state against future risks and challenges.

Services

  • Hazard Analysis & Risk Assessments, THIRA
  • Training
  • Grant Writing
  • Benefit-Cost Analysis
  • Feasibility Studies
  • Plan development and revisions
    • Hazard Mitigation Planning
    • Threat Specific Annexes
    • Operations Plans
    • Continuity Planning
  • Cybersecurity
  • After Action Report
  • Exercise Design and Evaluation
  • GIS
  • NFPA Deployment Models

Featured Projects

Long-Term Disaster Recovery and Statewide Resiliency Project

The Arkansas Association of Development Organizations (AADO) was awarded a $600,000 grant for long-term disaster recovery and preparedness after Tornados impacted areas of north-central and north-eastern Arkansas in December of 2021. This resulted in a presidential declared disaster, FEMA 4633-DR-AR. UA Little Rock’s Arkansas Economic Development Institute (AEDI) will be the primary organization working on resiliency planning, developing tools to assist hazard mitigation plan revisions, and providing training in the affected areas and other preparedness initiatives to increase disaster resilience statewide.

Click the “Learn More” button below for more information from EDA. 

ArkLaMec Resiliency Project

Arkansas-Louisiana Multimodal Economic Corridor

The ArkLaMec region (five counties in Southeast Arkansas and five parishes in Northeast Louisiana) received three Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Declarations for severe storms and flooding from late 2015 through early 2016. The severe weather brought about a break in the economic supply chain in some portions of the region exceeding 45 days. Our effort was not only to historically document the events, but to also develop individual community and regional strategies to aid in community recovery; resulting in raising the level of readiness for the communities and region to respond to the next disaster.

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Miles McDonnell

Miles McDonnell
Director of Emergency Management
mdmcdonnell@ualr.edu

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