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MITIGATION VS ADAPTATION: IT IS ALL ABOUT TIME SCALES!

There is a tendency within certain sectors to come up with terms that describe given areas of action without carefully or fully defining them. With time and use some of these terms are adopted by others for their own discourse, … Continue reading

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BUILDING COLLAPSE IN SURFSIDE, FLORIDA : WHY?

It was before sunrise Thursday 24 June 2021 that my pinging mobile phone, acknowledging text messages coming in, woke me up. Upon checking the headings of these messages alerting me to the partial sudden collapse of the 12-story Champlain Tower … Continue reading

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