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Category Archives: Hazards
LESSONS FROM A BUILDING COLLAPSE: WHAT NEEDS TO CHANGE?
In the early morning of June 24, 2021, many of us in Southeast Florida and in the rest of the country waked-up to the news of a tragic partial building collapse in Surfside. A young boy was rescued alive from … Continue reading
Posted in Built Environment, Causality, Characterization of Impacts, Climate Change, Disasters, Emergency Management, Featured, Global Warming, Hazard Assessment, Hazards, MY OPINION, Resilience, Sea Level Rise, Vulnerability Assessment
Tagged Building collapse, Building Recertification, Champlain Tower South, Florida, Florida Office of State Attorney, Grand Jury, Miami-Dade County, National Construction Safety Team, National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, Surfide
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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
Posted in Adaptation, Climate Change, Featured, Global Warming, Hazard Mitigation, Hazards, Science, Sea Level Rise
Tagged Atmosphere, Atmospheric Lifetime, Climate Change, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, Conference of Parties, COP26, Emissions reduction, GHG, global warming, Global Warming Potential. GWPm Hydrologic Cycle, Greenhouse gases, Paris Accord, Paris Agreement, UN Framework on Climate Change
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