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To present the latest in beach preservation technology and real-world practice.
To provide a technological transfer from the scientific and engineering community to government officials who make the decisions on coastal projects and policies.
Conference Highlights:
Two sessions devoted to the issue of hardbottom and mitigati…
This is a one-day performance level training course that develops the participant's ability to apply coastal risk reduction and opportunity enhancement measures to coastal floodplain management. The course format is as follows:
• Modules 1 and 2 will introduce the course scenario, with Module 2 concluding with an activity requiring teams of learners…
What can communities do for themselves and how can they maintain basic functions and structures during a disaster and then recover after the event is the focus of the workshop on Communities Resilience During and After Disasters organised by the EU-funded PPRD South Programme in Madrid from 12 to 15 September 2011.
More than 40 experts working in the N…
This study presents analysis of the six winning Hurricane Sandy Design Competition projects selected to demonstrate innovative approaches for rebuilding communities affected by Hurricane Sandy in ways that will enhance physical, social, economic, and environmental resilience. Two years into implementation, these projects are providing important les…
In storm-battered New Orleans, preparation for disasters "has become the norm, not the exception"
By Nicky Milne
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana - Sitting on his porch in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Otis Tucker cuts a lone figure on a street punctuated with large empty spaces - the shadows of homes lost to Hurricane Katrina.
Tucker lives in the…
Guidelines for Regenerating Southern Pine Beetle Spots, a general technical report (GTR) by the Southern Research Station (SRS), provides detailed guidance for regenerating pines in areas within forest stands where trees have been killed by southern pine beetle.
Authored by scientists from two units located in Pineville, Louisiana—the SRS Restoring an…
This book was produced to mark the end of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), a United Nations initiative to reduce the negative effects of natural disasters.
This volume communicates solutions to the problems associated with natural disasters, stimulating discussion and improvements in methods of protecting people and prop…
This final report presents the outcomes of the Making Cities Resilient New Orleans-Gothenburg exchange. The exchange was part of the United Nation's Making Cities Resilient campaign and concerned with disaster resilience with particular focus on high water levels and flood risk shared by the two coastal cities. With the objective of exchanging informati…
This report presents recommendations on key actions the Federal Government can take to better support state, local, tribal, and territorial leaders working to prepare their communities for the impacts of climate change. These recommendations focus on opportunities to remove barriers to resilient investments, modernize Federal grant and loan programs to…
By Scott Weybright, College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences
Salvage logging and re-seeding a forest after a wildfire helps reduce flooding and returns water levels to normal faster, according to a new paper from a Washington State University researcher.
The paper, just published in the journal Hydrological Processes, sh…
By Dani Anguiano
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More than 9,800 homes have been destroyed by the fire, largely in Paradise, a town of 27,000. Also gone are 366 commercial buildings, and a third of the town’s schools.
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“We have an opportunity to build the forests in the model of pre-European [settlement] conditions,” [the former fire chief and town evacuation opera…
The Fire Recovery Guide offers science-based perspectives for those working toward recovery of land while reducing risk going forward, helping to assess when and how to take action to support the ecosystems put in danger by wild fires.
California has experienced its deadliest and most severe wild fire seasons in recent history. Although…
This report will details recovery efforts that state government made in the 12-24 month period after Hurricane Katrina. A summary of the work of the federal government, local governments, nonprofit entities and the private sector are also included. The accomplishments and assessments of the following areas will be described in this report: housing, publ…
National parks near coastal areas of the Northeast have long since recovered from Hurricane Sandy and are in better shape for the next tropical storm. "We learned a lot after Sandy," said National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis. "It's a case study in how we look at protecting vulnerable coastal resources and infrastructure from avoidable impac…
The Environmental Disasters Conference will address the increasing occurrence of environmental disasters and the science and decision-making needed to more effectively prepare, respond, and make our communities more resilient. The goal of the conference is to develop actionable outcomes that constructively advance decision-making on environmental disas…