by admin | Dec 15, 2014 | Blogging, Climate, Disaster, Disaster policy, Public safety, Resilience, Urban Planning
This is one of those short posts that takes you to a different blog, but one for which I have direct responsibilities–the Recovery News blog at the American Planning Association website. We posted last Friday a video interview with Matthew Appelbaum, the mayor...
by admin | Nov 9, 2014 | Disaster, Disaster policy, Government, Public safety, Urban Planning
Little more than a week ago (October 28-29), I was participating in a conference in Broomfield, Colorado, north of Denver, sponsored by the Association of State Floodplain Managers, a national organization of 16,000 members dedicated to better floodplain management in...
by admin | Nov 2, 2014 | Disaster, Disaster policy, Public safety
I have been to my fair share of presentations on disaster-related issues. When I hear a particularly good presentation, I know it is good because I have a lot of others to which I can compare it. Sometimes local planners, emergency managers, and engineers, among...
by admin | Oct 7, 2014 | Disaster, Urban Planning
Back on July 28, I told the story in “The Fatal Attraction” of a gourmet restaurant in Gold Hill, Colorado, that somehow produced great food with the help of a fantastically dedicated staff in a small town nestled in the mountains. I also noted that the surrounding...
by admin | Sep 10, 2014 | Disaster, Environment, Journalism
In view of American journalist Steven Sotloff’s fate—beheading at the hands of the Islamic State rebels who now control much of Syria—this is a rather dramatic statement. It came from Bruce Shapiro, executive director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at...
by admin | Aug 26, 2014 | Blogging, Disaster
Readers may well be waiting for me to post something substantial soon, and I plan to compose a significant article this Labor Day weekend. It’s been very hectic for me the last two weeks, and I am currently in Washington on a round of ten meetings in two days,...
