Maxwell School News and Commentary
Filtered by: Natural Disasters
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.
See related: Climate Change, Natural Disasters, United States, Wildfires
Bendix speaks to Associated Press, Bloomberg about the California wildfires
"Climate change makes everything worse," says Jacob Bendix, professor of geography and the environment. "Efforts to manage fire risks "will be of limited use as long as the climate is getting warmer and in many cases getting drier."
See related: Climate Change, Natural Disasters, State & Local, United States, Wildfires
Public Affairs and the Multifront Attack on Climate Change
See related: Climate Change, Economic Policy, Natural Disasters, Natural Resources, Sustainability, Wildfires
Chance Briggs '97 MPA discusses Mozambique cyclone on NPR
Chance Briggs '97 M.P.A., country director for Save The Children in Mozambique, says "the Southern hemisphere has never seen anything like this in a natural disaster." He assesses that "right now, funding is the urgent need...If we don't get people quickly back on their feet now, they will have trouble reconstructing their houses, reconstructing their livelihoods."
See related: Africa (Sub-Saharan), Natural Disasters
Pralle quoted in CBS News article on flooding in Midwest
See related: Flood Insurance, Natural Disasters, United States
WP 199 Measuring the Financial Shocks of Natural Disasters: A Panel Study of U.S. States
See related: Natural Disasters
Popp paper on innovative responses to natural disasters published in JEEM
See related: Climate Change, Natural Disasters