by admin | Mar 30, 2016 | Climate, Government, Infrastructure, Public policy, Resilience, Science, Urban Planning
Recently, the American Planning Association’s Hazards Planning Center, which I manage, and the Association of State Floodplain Managers, began work on a new project funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office for Coastal...
by admin | Jul 12, 2015 | Chicago, Climate, Education, Environment, Public policy, Public safety, Resilience, Science, Urban Planning, Water
I grew up in suburban Cleveland. After a seven-year hiatus in Iowa and briefly in Nebraska, my wife’s home state, we ended up in Chicago. I am unquestionably a Midwesterner with most of my life lived near the Great Lakes. It will therefore not be surprising that for...
by admin | Apr 27, 2015 | Education, Information technology, Science, Technology
Before attending the NOAA Coastal GeoTools Conference in North Charleston, South Carolina (March 30-April 2), I had not spent much time thinking about data resilience. A brilliant scientist now working for ESRI, the leading company in geographic information services,...
by admin | Apr 5, 2015 | Blogging, Climate, Disaster, Disaster policy, Government, Resilience, Science
In response to my good friend, Allison Hardin, planner and floodplain manager in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, posting on Facebook the article referenced in my last post from the Post & Courier covering my and Matt Hauer’s presentations last week at the...
by admin | Mar 14, 2015 | Climate, Disaster, Government, Political philosophy, Resilience, Science, Urban Planning
Now suppose I go to Florida but decide never to utter the word “mosquitos.” Will that make the little buggers go away? Or suppose I refuse to say “cockroaches.” Does that mean they would never infest my apartment or condo? Finally, let us imagine that, on my trip to...
by admin | Mar 9, 2015 | Climate, Disaster, Science
If you live in the Midwest, you’re over, say, 50 years old, and you’ve had the impression that floods are happening more frequently than they used to, your memory is not playing tricks on you. A pair of researchers at the University of Iowa have studied the daily...
