Category Archives: Hazard Mitigation

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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ANA USHERS IN THE 2021 ATLANTIC HURRICANE SEASON

For the 7th year in a row the Atlantic hurricane season got an early start, before the ‘official start date’ of 1 June, when tropical cyclone ANA became the first named-storm of 2021 some 250 kilometers northeast of Bermuda. While … Continue reading

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