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August 26, 2020
Laurel McGinley
In 2015, a Dewberry team of engineers, planners, and geospatial analysts developed a tool to aid communities, state and federal agencies, and insurance companies in assessing wildfire risk. The Wildfire Risk Model is a geographic information system (GIS)-based tool that incorporates dozens of…
August 26, 2020
Vikram Shrivastava and Samara Ebinger
We frequently attend local and national conferences that are focused on the topic of flood risk management. During these conferences, we have the opportunity to speak with local community floodplain managers about the challenges they face on a day-to-day basis and the tools and datasets that can be…
August 26, 2020
Shannon Brewer and Duncan Hastie
In the peak of hurricane season, flooding becomes a concern in many communities throughout the country, just as we recently experienced with Hurricane Joaquin that brought major flooding to the southeast. We believe one of the best ways to protect a community from a similar event is to increase…
August 26, 2020
Larry Olinger, Douglas Frost, Laurel McGinley, Ronald Budzinski, Molly Wagner, Ronald Artigues Jr, Mark Montgomery and Johnise Molloy
Ten years ago, Hurricane Katrina, a storm with 140mph winds and a presence of nearly 400 miles across, made landfall on the Gulf Coast. She left behind destruction of upwards to an estimated $100 billion, with 80 percent of New Orleans underwater, 234,000 homes damaged or destroyed in Mississippi…
August 26, 2020
Steven Eget
On August 3, 2015, President Barack Obama announced the Clean Power Plan, which establishes limits for carbon pollution from power plants. This rule differs from many air pollution regulations by putting a framework in place to allow for a shift to cleaner energy. The plan includes a set of…
August 26, 2020
Daniel Atilano
A little over a year ago, Brian Bradner explained how the evolving target demographic of American business-to-consumer strategy has affected physical retail environments. As he explained, people simply aren't shopping in stores as often as they used to.
August 26, 2020
Stella Wilson and Bryon Griffith
We can still picture oil flowing, unchecked, from the Deepwater Horizon well into the Gulf of Mexico. As days turned into months, the fact that the flow hadn't been stemmed became more and more unbelievable. When the well was finally capped after three months, every Gulf Coast community experienced…
August 26, 2020
Shannon Brewer
Effective community resilience is a direct result of collaboration. The effectiveness of our floodplain management projects is determined by the total awareness, buy-in, and participation of not only the individual agency we work for, but as many lateral and sub-agencies as possible. Identifying…
August 26, 2020
As we celebrate Earth Day 2015, I'd like to discuss one of the topics sweeping the international business agenda: the importance of a corporate sustainability reporting program.
August 26, 2020
As Rick Davidson noted in a recent blog, justice architecture is not set in stone. Rather, it evolves to fit the needs of today's civilization – one filled with redemption opportunities along the path of reintegration into society.
August 26, 2020
Mat Mampara
The transition months between fall and winter contain sudden weather changes that can shut down airports entirely. Add climate change to the equation, along with two of the year's most popular traveling holidays, and it's become more difficult than ever for airports to anticipate and adapt to the…
August 26, 2020
Maggie Mathis and Samara Ebinger
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