The paper by Professors Howard Kunreuther and Erwann Michel-Kerjan for Copenhagen Consensus 2012 suggests four steps, including flood walls and effective early disaster warning systems.
In addition, the report reflects how the nation has made significant progress addressing opportunities for improvement identified after events such as 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina.
Also responsible for corporate security strategy, the new department consolidates eight emergency management-related functions now located in various departments.
“The unusually dry and windy weather at this time of year means that wildfires pose a greater threat to individual properties and neighborhoods across the U.S.,” said Michele Steinberg, NFPA’s Firewise Communities program manager.
This year's ASSE gathering in Denver will be something of a jungle, booked to the rafters.
First prize and $10,000 went to developers of an app named Lifeline that will be launched before this year's hurricane season.
The region's cold and remote conditions will require improved technology to prevent oil spills, the company said in announcing the move.
Craig Fugate, FEMA's administrator, and NOAA Deputy Administrator Dr. Kathryn Sullivan took questions about preparedness for special populations and teaching schoolchildren about severe weather.
Entergy Texas Inc. and Lamar University sponsored the Southeast Texas Coastal Resilience Forum last week, bringing together experts to discuss how to make harden coastal communities against more intense storms.
The challenge will launch in October 2012, but the agency holds a workshop on April 16 to outline it for interested parties.
International Maritime Organization Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu's video message for April 14 recalls the great ship's sinking a century ago.
Warning coordination meteorologist Robert Glancy will present a StormReady plaque and certificates to the Colorado Rockies at their April 13 game.
The demolition of Doyle Drive, the southern connection to the Golden Gate Bridge that has been in place since 1936, is scheduled to begin April 27-30.
Questions touch on the areas of the home ignition zone, the Firewise Communities/USA® Recognition Program, landscape maintenance, and more.
“These are potentially life-saving tools now available for free to the people who live, work, and play on our ocean and coastal waters in the Northwest,” said Zdenka Willis, U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System program director.
The study found that an owner of an unsprinklered building received the full benefit of unlimited water through the public water system during a fire without an increased cost.
Experts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Geodetic Survey are completing a leveling survey to determine whether an August 2011 earthquake shifted the ground beneath it.
The concept behind fire-adapted communities is that with proper community-wide preparation, populations and infrastructure can withstand the devastating effects of wildland fire.
The ANPRM published March 20, to ensure licensees are prepared for the potential loss of all AC power at a nuclear power plant, stems from the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi disaster.
Its annual Spring Outlook of flooding potential from April to June says for the first time in four years, no area of the country faces a high risk of major to record spring flooding.