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In 2017, Miami residents voted to allow the governmetn to allocate a $400 million bond called the Miami Forever Bond, whose purpose it is to build a stronger, more resilient future for the city. Advocates in Miami are working to ensure that minority and low-income communities have a say in how to spend the allocated funds.
In 2013, when FEMA redrew flood maps for the coast of Maine to account for more powerful hurricanes, some of the new high-risk zones were not only inaccurate, but expensive and difficult to correct. Wealthy vacation towns could easily foot the bill by hiring consultants, protecting access to development dollars, but many struggling fishing villages could not.
Three people who lived through and studied California's wildfires provide ideas on how to prevent them from happening again. One idea is to minimize exposure to fires in areas that naturally burn every few decades by discouraging developers from building there. Another idea is to stop clearing shrubs and instead focus on community-based tactics.
'The end goal isn’t just X client’s building is resilient. The end goal is that we have resilient cities that are up and operational after a seismic event,' said Erik Kneer, an associate engineer at Degenkolb...
Elisabeth Best highlights the advantages of constructing with bamboo, a material particularly resistant to natural hazards and reflects on why the material is not more widely used...
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