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HUD’s resilience revolution
At first glance, Minot, North Dakota, might not look like a cauldron of resilience innovation. This modest city of about 50,000 on the Souris River is mainly known to the outside world for a nearby air...
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Lessons learned in an earthquake’s aftermath
Disasters are never entirely natural; the risks inherent in our environment can be amplified or diminished by any number of factors, from culture to politics and economics. Similarly, building back...
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Can spacesuit science keep New York’s subways dry?
In October 2012, I moved to the US from Newcastle, England, to lead Arup’s New York civil engineering team. Two weeks later, Hurricane Sandy hit. My building flooded, and I was evacuated into a shelter...
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Lecciones aprendidas después de un terremoto
Los desastres jamás son totalmente naturales; los riesgos inherentes a nuestro medio ambiente pueden verse amplificados o disminuidos por una serie de factores que van desde la cultura y la política,...
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Don’t call us climate refugees
The Isle de Jean Charles in Terrebonne Parish has been home for more than a century to members of southern Louisiana’s Native American tribes, a close-knit community living in ramshackle houses amid...
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Five lessons for resilience
Resilience is commonly understood as the capacity to endure shocks and stresses. But for Lisa Dickson, Arup’s resilience leader for the Americas, this definition is too limiting. Instead, she posits,...
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Can insurance markets jump-start resilience?
Whether it’s Superstorm Sandy, an earthquake in Nepal, or runaway California wildfires, natural catastrophes take an enormous economic toll — upwards of $100 billion every year. You might think that...
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Deep risks and extreme failures: New tools to imagine resilience
Asked to consider resilience strategies for the New York metro area by the Regional Plan Association (RPA), an influential research and advocacy group, a team of designers depicted a dramatically...
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