Monique Verdin, "Headwaters : Tamaracks + Time : Lake Itasca" (2019), digital assemblage. Photograph taken in 2019; United States War Department map of the route passed over by an expedition into the Indian country in 1832 to the source of the Mississippi River.

Planning Beyond Sandy

November 3, 2015

 

11/2/15 – Following Hurricane Sandy, a multidisciplinary team developed a “decision tool” to aid recovery efforts, and in Issues a strategic planner involved in the project described lessons learned and called on the nation to shift from its tendency to react to natural disasters and instead to prepare for them. This message is amplified in a new report, described here by a former head of federal emergency management that proposes a national mitigation investment strategy to ensure that future generations are better prepared for the next disaster.