York Drive Publishing puts new water hazards compendium on LiveCarta

York Drive Publishing has released Emergency Management Threats and Hazards: Water Compendium 1 (2026) on LiveCarta.com. The digital collection is built to help emergency managers, educators, and students connect water-related threats to practical resources, training, and real-world examples.

Why it matters: - The new compendium gives emergency managers and educators a single digital place to find water-related threats and hazards resources. - The format supports grant research, training and exercise development, and classroom use in emergency management programs. - The release expands access to supporting materials for practitioners, students, and community leaders working on water risk and resilience.

What happened: - York Drive Publishing announced that Emergency Management Threats and Hazards: Water Compendium 1 (2026) is now available on LiveCarta.com. - The compendium was created by author and emergency management professional Michael Prasad. - The launch was announced Oct. 9, 2026, from Fanwood, New Jersey.

The details: - The digital compendium includes curated web links, additional reference materials, and real-world stories focused on water-related emergency management threats and hazards. - The compendium aligns with Prasad’s book Emergency Management Threats and Hazards: Water, which is available in print and e-book formats. - York Drive Publishing says the books are designed for emergency managers, public-safety professionals, educators, students, and community leaders. - The materials are intended to support practitioner background research, grant applications, training and exercise development, and historical reference. - The compendium is also positioned as courseware for undergraduate and graduate emergency management certificate and degree programs. - Michael Prasad is identified as an author and emergency management professional whose work focuses on threats, hazards, preparedness, and resilience. - LiveCarta is described as a digital platform for blended learning, flexible courseware design, and real-time content curation.

Between the lines: - The release reflects a broader push to package emergency management content in formats that are easier to assign, update, and customize for teaching. - LiveCarta’s platform pitch centers on courseware customization, which could make the new EM materials more usable in academic settings. - Richard Speakman, president of Tributary Publishing, said LiveCarta looks forward to publishing York Drive Publishing’s emergency management books and adding EM content to courseware.

What's next: - York Drive Publishing and LiveCarta appear set to position more emergency management titles for digital course use. - The compendium may serve as a model for future topic-specific collections tied to Prasad’s broader water hazards work. - More information, the company’s social channels, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, X, Substack

The bottom line: - The new LiveCarta release packages water-hazard research and references into a digital format meant to be useful in both classrooms and practitioner settings.