by admin | Sep 14, 2023 | Activism, Colorado, Disaster, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Management, Housing, Natural Hazards, Public safety, Urban Planning, Wildfire
The field production of Planning to Turn the Tide, the documentary film project of the American Planning Association’s Hazard Mitigation and Disaster Recovery (HMDR) Planning Division, has involved dozens of local volunteers and supporters in several states spread...
by admin | Jul 6, 2021 | Disaster, Floodplain management, Government, Hazard Mitigation, Housing, Infrastructure, Natural Hazards, Public safety, Resilience, Urban Planning
The recent collapse of the Champlain Towers in Surfside, Florida, has cast a spotlight on numerous issues concerning building maintenance, private and public decision-making processes, potential (but highly uncertain) corrosive impacts of sea level rise, and even the...
by admin | Mar 10, 2021 | Activism, Books, Careers, Climate, Environment, Housing, Infrastructure, Nature, Public health, Renewable Energy, Resilience, Technology, Transportation, Urban Planning, Volunteerism, Water
About six weeks ago, as the Biden administration was first asserting its priorities regarding climate change and the environment, I reviewed a book about the positive actions already being taken by cities around the world in addressing the climate crisis. The...
by admin | Feb 13, 2020 | Books, Climate, Coastal Management, Disaster, Disaster policy, Environment, Floodplain management, Government, Housing, Natural Hazards, Politics, Public policy, Resilience, Uncategorized, Urban Planning, Water, Weather
In the days shortly after World War II, writes Gilbert M. Gaul in The Geography of Risk, Morris Shapiro and his family were busy building their own version of Levittown, the famed suburban tract housing development of Long Island, on a barrier island in southern New...
by admin | Dec 17, 2019 | Activism, Climate, Disaster, Disaster policy, Economic development, Emergency Management, Floodplain management, Floodplain management, Government, Housing, Natural Hazards, Public health, Public policy, Resilience, Urban Planning, Water
The most important feature of this post is simply the link. Clicking here will lead you to a newly published podcast about the recovery struggles of Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria in the fall of 2017. The recording–an interview between me and Professor...
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...
