by admin | Dec 6, 2020 | Activism, Climate, Coastal Management, Disaster, Environment, Floodplain management, Government, Hazard Mitigation, History, Natural Hazards, Public policy, Resilience, Science, Technology, Water
Last Wednesday, December 2, the U.S. Senate passed the Digital Coast Act in a final vote that sent the legislation to President Trump for his signature. If that happens, it may provide a very useful gift to thousands of coastal communities wrestling with a wide...
by admin | Nov 23, 2020 | Activism, Agriculture, Books, Civil rights, Climate, Economic development, Environment, Government, Hazard Mitigation, History, Immigration, Industry, Nature, Politics, Public health, Public policy, Racism, Resilience, Science, Urban Planning, Water, Weather
A presidential transition has always been a time to look forward in American history, anticipating change, contemplating new directions. Sometimes we like the new direction, sometimes we don’t; sometimes we think it just doesn’t go far enough to remedy the problems we...
by admin | Aug 20, 2020 | Climate, Coastal Management, Disaster policy, Earthquake, Emergency Management, Environment, Floodplain management, Government, Infrastructure, Natural Hazards, Nature, Public policy, Resilience, Wildfire
One of the long-standing questions concerning national disaster policy is why a state or community needs to suffer a presidentially declared disaster in order to be eligible for federal hazard mitigation grants to help improve its resilience against storms, floods,...
by admin | Apr 11, 2020 | Activism, Aging, Chicago, Coronavirus, Disability, Disaster, Economics, Environment, Government, Healthcare, Medical, New Orleans, Public health, Public policy, Resilience, Science, Transportation, Urban Planning
On April 29, I will be moderating “Demanding Equity: Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery,” a 45-minute session in a special three-day virtual conference of the American Planning Association, NPC20 @HOME. The online conference is an attempt to replace the experience of...
by admin | Mar 8, 2020 | Environment, Geography, Nature, Parks, Travel, Uncategorized, Wildlife
Last week, I was in Kearney, Nebraska, for three days, attending and speaking at the Nebraska Planning and Zoning Association annual conference. But that is merely an excuse for being in the right place at the right time, for once in my life, to see one of nature’s...
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...
