Attitude with Arnie Arnesen Podcast: We talk with Amy Chester, Managing Director of Rebuild by Design. The organization has used data collected during multiple natural disasters to plan new and rebuild environments, such as housing developments, hospitals, etc. The goal is to design environments that can withstand such disasters.
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Waterbury Roundabout: Rebuild by Design, an outreach effort within the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU, last week announced the creation of a mapping tool called the Atlas of Accountability that tracks natural disasters across the U.S. to provide information to communities and policymakers looking to invest in resilience measures.
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WCNC: When folks think about natural disasters, their mind immediately goes to the coast, but experts say otherwise. New data shows inland counties across the U.S. are the most likely to be victims of natural disasters and the consequences could be much more severe when it’s time to rebuild.
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Fox 56: Kentuckians are no strangers to severe weather. Tornadoes, windstorms, mudslides, landslides, and even flooding are all events that come with living in the Commonwealth. A recent report from ‘Rebuild by Design’ found that 91% of congressional districts in the US include counties that received a major disaster declaration between 2011 and 2023, which
WBBJ: When it comes to extreme weather and other so-called natural disasters, people generally look to the hurricane or earthquake-prone coasts and say that’s where the danger is. But that’s not where the highest concentration of federally declared disasters are, according to an atlas of 713 FEMA declared disasters created by New York University’s Institute
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Dev Discourse: An Atlas by New York University’s Institute for Public Knowledge charts 713 FEMA-declared disasters, showing Kentucky’s frequent disasters. Amy Chester, from Rebuild By Design, emphasizes these recurring local disasters often go unnoticed compared to high-profile hurricane-hit areas.
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Making Room for the Water is partnering with communities in lowland and upland neighborhoods, as well as a network of local and international experts to understand the components of a program that would help the City or State create a successful migration program(s) to determine how to help communities balance long-term challenges with the immediate
MSN: Being prepared to deal with extreme weather events before they happen is a major part of climate resiliency and one that is becoming increasingly important throughout the United States and the world. A 2022 report from Rebuild by Design indicated that 90% of the counties in the U.S. had experienced at least one climate
Harvard Kennedy School: What makes climate change different as a policy challenge? Why is it so hard to solve? And how can we balance the need for the right technical solutions with the importance of having the process be as democratic and participatory as possible?
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Designing a teach-in: Rebuild hosted a flood infrastructure teach-in to better understand the US Army Corps of Engineers’ proposed plan for flood protection in the New York and New Jersey Harbor and Tributaries. Learn more>>
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