From the Wharton School at Univ. of PA, a 72-page, final draft version of a paper titled: Operationalizing Resilience Against Natural Disaster Risk: Opportunities, Barriers and A Way Forward.
The many authors cited are affiliated with the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance and come from the Wharton School ( Univ. of PA) and the International Institute for Applied System Analysis, Austria.
Thanks to Shannon Cunniff for providing me with the citation.
Some Global Insurance Industry members want to collaborate with public sector re risk reduction and other matters.
We have come together as leaders in global risk management to issue a collective call to action to proactively address climate threats and build societal resilience.
Thanks to Franklin MacDonald for the citation.
Several news sources have written up this report and a couple of readers have called it to my attention. See: Heat Drives Away More People Than Natural Disasters: The Impacts of a Warming World
A new report from the Geosciences Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER) team in New Zealand. Title: GEOTECHNICAL & FLOODING RECONNAISSANCE OF THE 2014 MARCH FLOOD EVENT POST 2010-2011 CANTERBURY EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCE, NEW ZEALAND”
Thanks to Prof. William Siembieda of Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, who was a co-author of the report.
See Margareta Waldstrom’s talk on the topic: http://www.rappler.com/move-ph/issues/disasters/61691-complacency-disasters-morally-unacceptable-united-nations
The original posting I did dealt with the “trade secret” comment about the Red Cross’s internal operations. That article appeared in ProPublica on June 26.
The Diva is still on travel so I do not have the ability to do justice to this topic.
Your readers may be interested in this article from the Washington Post, which chronicles the decision by the state of North Carolina to essentially repeal distressing forecasts of the effects of sea level rise on the Outer Banks and inland areas. While the state’s deliberate short-sightedness is distressing—I’d nominate it for the first annual King Canute award for climate change denial—it also illustrates some of the very real political difficulties in relying on 100 year-out forecasts of the effects of climate change. There’s a significant margin of error around forecasts that far out and it’s very easy for people to contend that it’s not their problem and we don’t need to do anything right now. Focusing on shorter term manifestations of climate change, even though the numbers aren’t as dramatic, may be a better strategy for getting some sort of action—it’s much harder to deny things that are already happening than projects of events that may not happen until 2100.
As of July 2, I still cannot find any additional information about the National Disaster Resilience Competition.
But I did see this item of interest on the HUD website: HUD RELEASES PROGRESS REPORT ON SANDY REBUILDING STRATEGY; Report Tracks Progress On Recommendations of Sandy Task Force
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Sandy Program Management Office (PMO) today issued its first report tracking progress on the Sandy Rebuilding Strategy. The report is now available online.
Re the symposium held at MIT this past week. Go to: http://seagrant.mit.edu/conferences/CCS2014/
From an article in today’s Wall St. Journal:
Many Displaced by Superstorm Sandy Still Wait for Housing Help:
Rules, Including Some Tracing to Fraud Seen After Katrina, Slow Delivery of Billions in Federal Aid
Recovery Diva 