How Communities Can Better Support Small Businesses
by Warren Edwards(Connor Wolf, InsideSources) The House Small Business Committee hosted the hearing to examine how important community support is to cultivating entrepreneurship and small business success. The hearing also explored how a thriving entrepreneurship culture can, in turn, improve …
Mainland Mayors Partner With Puerto Rico Leaders to Help Rebuild
by Warren Edwards(J Brian Charles, Governing) More than 40 city leaders have joined a new exchange to share disaster relief expertise with their local counterparts on the island. Read more here.
Speaking Truth to Power: Please Don’t Call Them Natural Disasters
by Warren EdwardsRichard Olson (Director of Extreme Events Institute at Florida International University) argues in this Natural Hazards op-ed that a persistent problem in public discourse is the penchant of public officials and the media to label major damaging events …
Labor 2030: The Collision of Demographics, Automation and Inequality
by Warren EdwardsBain & Company (Karen Harris, Austin Kimson, Andrew Schwedel) A new report from Bain & Company Demographics shows that the collision of demographics, automation and inequality could trigger economic disruption far greater than we have experienced …
Flood APEX Program
by Warren EdwardsDHS First Responders Group Rethinking America’s Costliest Disaster…Read More
What went wrong in Irma? Woes ran gamut from passwords to power
by Warren EdwardsAs Hurricane Irma’s eastern flank swept across Broward County last September, the storm exposed the weaknesses in the county’s readiness, from crowded shelters to a lack of information on power outages…Read More
Floods Are Getting Worse, and 2,500 Chemical Sites Lie in the Water’s Path
by Warren EdwardsBy HIROKO TABUCHI, NADJA POPOVICH, BLACKI MIGLIOZZI and ANDREW W. LEHREN FEB. 6, 2018 Anchored in flood-prone areas in every American state are more than 2,500 sites that handle toxic chemicals, a New York Times analysis of …
StormPeace Joins Statewide Coalition to Promote Hurricane Resilience
by Warren EdwardsFrom StormPeace Hurricane Irma proved that the first few days after a major storm can be paralyzing, especially when residents are faced with damage…Read More
Moody’s Investor Service Announcement
by Warren EdwardsMoody’s: Climate change is forecast to heighten US exposure to economic loss placing short- and long-trm pressure on US states and local governments…Read More
Foothills United Way awards ‘Community Resilience Grants’
by Warren EdwardsBy BizWest Staff LAFAYETTE — Foothills United Way has awarded five Community Resilience Grants to help fund projects in Boulder and Broomfield counties to help create a community that is able to withstand and recover from …
Letter: Build community resilience
by Warren EdwardsBy Meridian Green, Vancouver. With electric vehicles soon to be self-driving, able to transport us from our door to our destination, we’ll need fewer garages. Instead of storing cars, garages can be converted into housing for people…Read …
Natural Hazard Mitigation Saves: 2017 Interim Report
by Warren EdwardsNational Institute of Building Sciences. Summary of Findings. Read More
The Oroville Dam 2017 Spillway Incident – Possible Causes and Solutions
by Warren Edwardsby Telis Koskinas in Climate Etc. On February 2017, Oroville Dam gained worldwide attention when its main spillway suddenly failed, seemingly without precedent, under natural operating conditions…Read More
U.S. social fabric – torn, frayed, unraveled by 2017’s hurricanes. But how badly?
by Warren EdwardsFrom “Living on the Real World” blog…Read More
2017 Opportunity Index PDFs
by Warren EdwardsLink to PDFs
Atlanta’s Inclusive Plan to Address Impacts of Changing Climate, Demographics
by Warren EdwardsThis article first appeared on ThinkProgress by contributor Sam Fulwood III. People who live in Atlanta, Georgia, once burned to the ground by Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s march through Dixie, envision themselves as a resilient lot. With good …
Lessons From Hurricane Harvey: Houston’s Struggle Is America’s Tale
by Warren EdwardsBy Michael Kimmelman The mayhem that Hurricane Harvey unleashed on Houston didn’t only come from the sky. On the ground, it came sweeping in from the Katy Prairie some 30 miles west of downtown…Read More
Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria: how natural were these ‘natural disasters’?
by Warren EdwardsBy: Emily Shuckburgh, Dann Mitchell & Peter Scott No meteorological event demonstrates the power of nature to wreak devastation on even the most advanced of our societies more than a hurricane…Read More
Detroit: From Motor City to Housing Incubator
by Warren EdwardsBy Matthew Goldstein. The 2008 financial crisis and 2013 city bankruptcy guttedDetroit’s housing market. Now, Detroit is experimenting withunorthodox ways to get people to buy homes and renovate houses…Read More
How to improve community disaster resilience through pre-event long-term recovery planning
by Warren Edwardsby Scott Miller. Thought I’d share my fifteen guidelines for creating pre-event long-term recovery plans/frameworks based on past work I’ve done with local jurisdictions and reviewing plans from other jurisdictions…Read More
Integrating Social and Behavioral Sciences within the Weather Enterprise
by Warren EdwardsPosted on November 7 by William Hooke Read More
The Cause of Mankind
by Warren EdwardsBy Sean Collins. The American Revolution changed the world, and it isn’t finished yet…Read More
by Warren EdwardsBy Kevin Randolph. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved Wednesday two final rules and issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) regarding mandatory standards aimed at supporting the resilience and reliability of the U.S. bulk electric …
Unlocking capital for water sector requires smart, integrated strategies, says new report
by Warren EdwardsCALIFORNIA, SEPT 22, 2017 — Unlocking the flow of capital to accelerate improvements to water infrastructure that advance climate resilience and protect urban low-income communities from flooding requires integrated strategies for investments and grantmaking, concludes a …
How to Build Resilient Work Teams
by Warren EdwardsIt takes internal “grit” to cope with business and technology changes. Lynn Christensen of Workday shares some advice on building resilience…Read More
On national security, we are our own worst enemy
by Warren EdwardsBy Erik Goepner. Read More
Vulnerable set to be better off in time of disasters
by Warren Edwardsby Joel Gould. AN emergency management pilot program that assists the city’s most vulnerable is set to be rolled out by Ipswich City Council over the next 12 months…Read More
Parry Sound columnist addresses resilience and competence
by Warren Edwardsby Stephen Heder. When Colonel Sanders, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, turned 65, he received his first National Security cheque. It was for $105. He could have resigned himself to living the rest of his life in …
Gov. John Bel Edwards kicks off Louisiana Resilient Recovery Program
by Warren EdwardsGovernor John Bel Edwards spent some quality time in Acadiana Thursday as local, state and federal agencies are joining together to face one particular problem, mitigating floods. Governor Edwards announced the Acadiana area will see more …
Resilience for the most vulnerable: Managing disasters to better protect the world’s poorest
by Warren EdwardsStephane Hallegatte — The World Bank, Voices – In his “The People of the Abyss,” novelist Jack London describes in grim detail a devastating storm that rocked London in the early 20th century. Residents suffered terribly…Read More
The Effect of Natural Disasters on Economic Activity in US Counties: A Century of Data
by Warren EdwardsNBER Working Paper No. 23410 Issued in May 2017…Obtain
Despite population decline, Houston County predicts bright future
by Warren EdwardsNathan Hansen CALEDONIA, Minn. — Haley Vanderohe has loved growing up in a small town. But that won’t keep her here after she heads off to college…Read More
An innovation district seeks to bridge an economic divide
by Warren EdwardsBy Kim Lyons Pittsburgh’s new “EcoInnovation District” hopes the success of its tech cluster will bleed into two of the city’s lowest-income neighborhoods…Read More
Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction
by Warren EdwardsA Report from Handicap International Each year, millions of people throughout the world are affected by hazards such as droughts, floods, volcanic eruptions, mudslides, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis and forest fires. The frequency of these hazards1 is …
As threats grow, expanding cities push for stronger, safer societies
by Warren EdwardsBy Reuters TEPIC, Mexico July 20(Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Urban resilience, no longer just a buzzword, is fast becoming part of the fabric of cities around the world, which need to ramp up strategies to ensure …
Why British coffee and tea maker Taylors prioritizes supplier resilience
by Warren Edwardsby Hugh Bowring Businesses no longer need to be convinced that the world is changing at an alarming rate. That’s old news…Read More
A Tale of Two Recoveries: 5 Lessons from Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy
by Warren EdwardsHow the social contexts in Mississippi and New Jersey affected recovery. By Susan Cutter and Christopher Emrich, June 25, 2015…Read More
What We Do Together: The State of Associational Life in America
by Warren EdwardsSocial Capital Project — Prepared by the Vice Chairman’s Staff of the Joint Economic Committee at the request of Senator Mike Lee, May 2017…Read More
Philadelphia: From Wood to Ductile Iron – A Leader in Water Infrastructure Innovation
by Warren EdwardsPosted to Politics June 09, 2017 by Patrick Hogan Not long after the Liberty Bell rang out the fledging United States’ victory over the British monarchy, enterprising minds in Philadelphia constructed a water main system using pine …
Risk Is Inevitable. Resilience Is Everything
by Warren EdwardsJeff Thomson , Contributor All companies, regardless of size, face a myriad of risk in today’s global business and economic climate — from cyber risk to natural disaster preparedness to supply chain disruption…Read More
This is why infrastructure is so expensive
by Warren EdwardsJune 5, 2017 by Charles Marohn A few weeks ago I finished the book Catastrophic Care: Why Everything We Think We Know about Health Care is Wrong by David Goldhill. In 400 pages he shed more light …
Resilience in Troubled Times
by Warren EdwardsJune 1, 2017 by John Beckett Writing has been difficult lately. I’m being pulled in about a dozen directions and none of them are suitable for blogging, at least not for now. I started and discarded two …
Insurance is the “ultimate community product” for social resilience: ICMIF CEO
by Warren Edwards2nd June 2017 – Author: Luke Gallin Insurance and reinsurance is far more than just a policy and the capabilities and capacity of the risk transfer industry must be utilised to increase global disaster resilience, stressed Shaun …
Why disaster preparedness is important
by Warren EdwardsBy: Guillermo M. Luz Now that it’s officially the “rainy season,” perhaps it’s time to review some lessons from the past and what they tell us about disaster preparedness. I recently attended the UN Global Platform …
‘Resilience Bonds’: A secret weapon against catastrophe
by Warren EdwardsBy Amanda Ruggeri In a conference room overlooking downtown Miami, British executives are talking about why they know south Florida’s streets so well. It isn’t because of the sunshine. It’s because of the area’s risk …
A Road Trip Through Rusting and Rising America
by Warren EdwardsThomas L. Friedman MAY 24, 2017 OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — In his dystopian Inaugural Address, President Trump painted a picture of America as a nation gripped by vast “carnage” — a landscape of “rusted-out factories scattered …
5 Key Components to Effective Disaster Preparedness
by Warren EdwardsScott Cormier, VP of Emergency Management, Environment of Care and Safety Medxcel Facilities Management Natural disasters cause nearly 500 deaths annually in the United States. Unfortunately, healthcare facilities in the U.S. continue to fall short in …
The Well-Tempered City –
by Warren EdwardsWhat Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life, Jonathan F. P. Rose Read More
Building Resilient Streets and Neighbourhoods
by Warren EdwardsPosted By: Veronica Cooperon: May 21, 2017In: News, Vital People As chickens cluck loudly, it’s important to clarify, we’re not on a farm, but in a backyard in Victoria West…Read More
Waiting for `The Big One’ to Shake San Francisco: QuickTake Q&A
by Warren Edwardsby Jeffrey Taylor More stories by Jeffrey Taylor May 26, 2017 12:00 AM What happens to the San Francisco Bay area when the next major earthquake strikes? Read More