Lessons from Sandy: Building with resilience in mind
"Each catastrophe should trigger a national conversation, not just at the federal but also state and local levels along the lines of 'what can our community here learn from what happened (over there)?' And that conversation should lead to a set of mutually-supportive private- and public-sector actions to build resilience at the community level and reduce future risk," stated William H. Hook, senior policy fellow at the American Meteorological Society. Mr Hook was quoted by Andrew C. Revkin, who summarized some of the lessons to be learned from Hurricane Sandy on the pages of The New York Times. The issues mentioned in the opinion piece touch upon issues such as critical infrastructure, insurance, economics of disaster risk reduction, disaster recovery and more.