Maxwell School News and Commentary
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Pralle Discusses Federal Flood Insurance, Flood Maps in Grist Article
Sarah Pralle, associate professor of political science, was quoted in the Grist article, "After FEMA overhaul, hundreds of thousands of Americans are forgoing federal flood insurance."
See related: Insurance, Natural Disasters, United States
Coffel Quoted in Washington Post Article on Deadly Heatwaves
Ethan Coffel, assistant professor of geography and the environment, was quoted in the Washington Post article, "When the Weather Gets Hot Enough To Kill."
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Maxwell Faculty, Graduate Students Contribute to New Social Sciences Book
Faculty members Robert Rubinstein and Sandra Lane are among the co-editors and contributors to this handbook, which investigates the social contexts of health—including food and nutrition, race, class, ethnicity, trauma, gender, mental illness and the environment—to explain the complicated nature of illness.
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Bendix interviewed by NBCLX on climate change, wildfires
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Bendix quoted in LA Times article CA wildfires, climate change
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Bendix talks to LA Times about CA wildfires, fireworks threat
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Sarah Pralle examines changes in flood insurance rate maps in Risk Hazard & Crisis in Public Policy
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Pralle talks to Forbes about FEMA's upcoming changes, flood insurance
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Pralle discusses updating county flood maps in Cortland Standard
The Cortland County flood map "might show a reasonable flood risk today, but since we don’t make those investment decisions with ramifications far into the future, the maps don’t really help us plan for a different climate," says Sarah Pralle, associate professor of political science. "When we look at flood maps now, the conversations are about the insurance cost," Pralle says. Instead, "we have to get to the point where we talk about these things as risks and how to mitigate these things as well." Read more in the Cortland Standard article, "What Cortland County’s flood map does, and doesn’t, show."
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Bendix explores solutions to the western wildfire crisis in The Hill
"Recognition of the multiple contributors to the wildfire crisis should enable us to move past the focus on simple solutions — one size does not fit all, and reducing fire impacts will require a mix of approaches that match the geographic and ecological complexity of fire regimes," writes Jacob Bendix, professor of geography and the environment.
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