The share of capital and population installed in flood-prone area can be increasing with growth, making disaster consequences (when a disaster occurs) grow more rapidly than wealth.
"Motion picture companies are making disaster films and terror films all the time, and they're scrambling to see where they go now, but theater is different," Mr. Maso said.
But a recent study by the California Emergency Management Agency found the majority of the state's households failing to meet recommendations for many basic emergency needs, like stockpiling water (a minimum of three gallons per person), reinforcing their homes and making disaster plans.
A combination of climate change, our current lifestyles and land use patterns is making disaster reconstruction a regular, routine function of government.
With that in mind, don't miss being enveloped in the great fires, earthquakes, and floods of our past history, and learning who profited from them via Fraser's new piece, "Making Disaster Pay".
When people, who belong to vulnerable populations, including individuals with disabilities, participate in decision making, disaster risk reduction activities can take place in anticipation of disaster, not simply in reaction to it.
