by admin | Dec 2, 2019 | Climate, Disaster, Disaster policy, Economics, Environment, Floodplain management, Natural Hazards, Parks, Politics, Public policy, Public safety, Resilience, Water, Wildfire
Warning to readers: This is not my usual single-focus essay. It is a collage of news from two coastal states with an assortment of serious natural hazards challenges—Florida and California. In recent years, their politics has tended to diverge widely, but perhaps we...
by admin | Nov 12, 2019 | Climate, Disaster, Floodplain management, Geography, Housing, Natural Hazards, Recreation, Resilience, Transportation, Uncategorized, Urban Planning, Water
Wilmington, a charming city of just over 100,000 on the far southern edge of the North Carolina coast, has taken some hits from coastal storms in recent years, most notably Hurricane Florence in 2018. Hurricane Dorian this year posed a minor threat but mostly left a...
by admin | Sep 2, 2019 | Chicago, Environment, Floodplain management, Infrastructure, Parks, Uncategorized, Urban Planning
It is possible to live in a city as large as Chicago and be blissfully unaware of some wonderful things. Chicago, after all, includes 2.7 million people spread over 227 square miles. My wife and I have lived here since 1986, but we do not spend much of our time...
by admin | Apr 9, 2019 | Activism, Books, Chicago, Climate, Drought, Environment, Floodplain management, Infrastructure, Natural Hazards, Public policy, Resilience, Science, Water
I grew up near the shores of Lake Erie, in suburban Cleveland. After a seven-year stint in Iowa and Nebraska, I ended up in Chicago, where I have lived since 1985. The Great Lakes have been part of my ecological and geographic consciousness for essentially 90 percent...
by admin | Mar 13, 2019 | Careers, Disaster, Emergency Management, Floodplain management, Government, Natural Hazards, Parks, Public safety, Resilience, Restaurants, Urban Planning, Water
Hillsborough County is a dense metropolitan area, anchored by the city of Tampa. Tampa and nearby St. Petersburg, in Pinellas County, sit on opposite shores of Tampa Bay, a 400-square-mile expanse of water connected to the Gulf of Mexico. Across that gap sits the...
by admin | Jan 21, 2019 | Careers, Floodplain management, Government, Gratitude, Information technology, Natural Hazards, Resilience, Uncategorized, Urban Planning, Water
GRATITUDE ON PARADE #gratitudeonparade[Partners of] the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Digital Coast program are hosting a meeting in Washington, D.C., today of the Digital Coast Partnership, an assortment of eight national nonprofit...
