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Displaying 3 of about 3 resultsThe 2020 Beirut port explosion is a reminder that designing disaster risk reduction strategies is not enough. The policies must also be implemented.
For over seven years, Beirut’s port stored 2700 tons of explosive Ammonium Nitrate in poor conditions. In August 2020, the chemicals exploded, leaving 204 people dead, 300,000 homeless, and USD 15B in dest…
The first thoughts after a disaster are never with an interesting design process for the hit area. First concerns need to be with the people that suffer, have to deal with damage or lost relatives. Secondly, the remnants of the disaster should be cleared, so normal life can resume. The grief and sorrow has to find a place in the communities.
In J…
Back in 1986…
When I was 8 years old, my father and I slept overnight in our family car in Brest at the border of the Soviet Union and Poland, which was closed at night, en route from Moscow to Berlin. It was a seemingly normal night in April 1986... However, upon arrival in East Germany, I was shocked by the news of the disastrous accident the previou…