by admin | Apr 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
Washington Sea Grant has published “PLANNING FOR CHANGE: CLIMATE ADAPTATION SURVEY RESULTS, WASHINGTON STATE, 2014.” This report details the results of a Sea Grant survey distributed statewide in Washington during August 2012. The survey assessed the role...
by admin | Mar 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
Congress passed the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act in 2012 (BW12) in order to modernize the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), with new maps, new community outreach efforts, and flood insurance rates that reflected risk more accurately.However,...
by admin | Feb 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
Josh Silberg, MRM Candidate and Hakai Scholar at Simon Fraser University, shares his thoughts on how resilience supplanted sustainability: “Part of the reason why the word resilience is so effective is that… the term recognizes the inherent natural...
by admin | Feb 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
As part of a study of coastal beaches around the country, the USGS has published “Historical shoreline change along the Pacific Northwest coast.” Among several findings, one is that 36% of beach transects in OR and WA were determined to be eroding. The...
by admin | Jan 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has announced a $40m grant program for municipalities to strengthen clean energy infrastructure against storms. In addition, “the Patrick Administration is also investing $10 million in critical coastal infrastructure and dam...
by admin | Jan 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
Superstorm Sandy, which wreaked havoc on the metro-New York region a year ago, is part of a growing series of natural and man-made catastrophic events that have caught communities in the U.S. and around the world unprepared. Will Puget Sound be resilient in the face...
by admin | Jan 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
The Northridge Earthquake: “Like a Punch Delivered from Below” from LA MagazineIt’s been two decades since the magnitude 6.7 Northridge earthquake shook Los Angeles to its core. Richard Andrews presided over the Herculean effort to make the city whole again.Andrews...
by admin | Jan 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
A FEMA update from STARR: “FEMA’s Region X Mitigation Planning Team has released Integrating the Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan into a Community’s Comprehensive Plan: A Guidebook for Local Governments.This guidebook was developed by FEMA to explain and...
by admin | Jan 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
Many different agencies, organizations, and researchers have their own definitions of resilience. Here’s one from NOAA/National Ocean Service. (Source: http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/resilience.html)”Coastal resilience means building the ability of a...
by admin | Jan 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
On December 23, 2013, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has issued guidance through our Regional offices to state, local, tribal, and territorial partners on the ability to incorporate sea level rise estimates in Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) project...
