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'The real estate industry needs to be better educated about the value of wildfire-resistant construction and landscapes, so it can use safety as a selling point while also educating the consumer about risk mitigation. Until we deal with the complexities of the human systems that create these problems, we are committing ourselves to a repeated cycle of disaster'...
A Los Angeles City Council member wants to allow owners who seismically retrofit apartment buildings to pass on the costs of earthquake strengthening to tenants as an incentive for retrofitting, reports the LA Times...
'Because the government makes extensive investment in infrastructure and other development before disasters, and because it also has the deepest pockets when disaster strikes, it has the ability to give communities incentives to help themselves through better zoning regulations, building codes and hazard management programs.'...
'This is an important moment to compare what is really likely to happen over the next 10 years with the industry’s expectations' of a nuclear renaissance. 'When that comparison is performed properly, it becomes clear that we are witnessing not a revival but a collapse in expectations for new reactor construction.'...
A joint report by FEMA, NOAA and the Red Cross on how to prepare for a tropical storm offers plenty of suggestions on getting your home to ready weather a storm, as well as what to set aside in case of an emergency, reports the LA Times...
Too many countries are playing Russian roulette when it comes to seismic risk, writes Claire Berlinski, a City Journal contributing editor living in Istanbul in an op-ed for the LA Times. She challenges us to 'truthfully' ask why cities are at risk in the first place...
'The state of preparedness was close to zero in terms of looking forward to climate change and what it's going to bring' said Susanne Moser from the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University in an LA Times story. 'Since then there's been an explosion of interest on the local level.'...
A group made up of academics and environmentalists and private sector people are calling for the incoming governor, Jerry Brown, to coordinate data-gathering and monitoring of sea levels and water supplies, reports Margot Roosevelt for the LA Times...
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