Tyler Perry's last film, "The Single Moms Club," was an all-around disaster — the film, greeted by scathing reviews, marked his worst showing ever at the box office and even tanked with his core audience.
In the first days after the collapse, similar ad hoc volunteer efforts sprouted all around the disaster site.
Ms. Cox and her husband, John, said they expected to find a more protracted area of devastation all around the disaster site, on this, their first trip to New York.
Creating a positive narrative around disaster seems to have been a Victorian speciality.
So for a class project on designing around disaster, Sreshta teamed up with classmate Anna Stork, who had a background in engineering.
The 2000 2009 decade is also critical in terms of shifting concerns around disaster issues, with an increased focus on risk preparedness.
The story of Montserrat's volcanic eruptions received several pages of coverage in the second edition of At Risk, a landmark publication in the evolution of ideas around disaster risk and social dimensions of vulnerability (Wisner et al. 2004).
Combine this expertise with the big data crunching that has made smarter cities a success and you begin to see how all that online chatter around disasters like Hurricane Sandy might offer valuable insight for building better, more sustainable cities and turn all that social media reaction into action.
Christian aid groups favour eucalyptus; others, including the UN's environmental development arms, believe aloe and elephant grass are suitable for more arid areas around disaster-prone Gonaïves.
The story around disasters in Pakistan being used by Islamist groups to recruit and radicalise young people because the civilian state (never the army) remains absent is a familiar one.
The data packets of the Internet find their own way around disasters, just as their creators in the 1960's envisioned when they financed the development of the Internet's precursor to deal with an earlier threat -- Soviet missiles.
