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100 years after the 1918 influenza pandemic, the U.S. has made unprecedented growth in its understanding of infectious disease, with remarkable technical and organizational advances. Despite this, the risk of a global pandemic still remains high. Safeguards, tools, systems, and mindsets need to progress, and urgent investments remain important.
Disasters keep happening, and taxpayers’ money keeps rebuilding the vulnerability. Despite deadlock in the federal government, local and state leaders are embracing creative policy options to mitigate the impact of a warmer earth. And still, they will be inadequate as they rest on a homeland security and disaster management system that has barely changed with them.
Climate change is raising the sea level and it is making coastal communities more vulnerable to flooding. It also increases storm frequency and intensity. Two professors contemplate the options to minimize climate change effects: constructing sea walls, investing in resilience and making coordinated plans for managed retreat are some of the options that they suggest...
Voluntary Commitments
The organization has no registered commitments.
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.