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In a follow-up post on FiveThirtyEight, Pielke claimed that these technological advancements to mitigate disaster damages don't make a difference in damage trends "for floods, U.S. hurricanes or tornadoes".
Politically speaking, his presidency is more analogous to that of Hoover's successor, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who also swept into office with historic Democratic majorities, promising bold action to mitigate disaster.
Many also came up with ways to mitigate disaster in case their fixes didn't work: Local governments rebuilt and tested emergency management systems, which later proved crucial for New York after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
So by deliberately working on managing conflict, I think we can try and steer these competing needs and interests in a way that will be productive and lead to social benefits, rather than just reacting and trying to mitigate disaster after disaster after social disaster.
"Witt shaped it into an organization that was not only to respond to disaster but attempt to mitigate disaster by taking actions before they occurred," said Michael Greenberger, a domestic security expert at the University of Maryland and a former Justice Department official.
The general public, equipped with billions of connected devices, is our best weapon to mitigate disaster.
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Berkeley's model Disaster Resistant University Program has been recognized as one of the top seismic-safety projects of the 20th century by the Applied Technology Council, an engineering group that strives to mitigate disaster-caused damage to the built environment.
Concrete check dams are widely used to mitigate disasters, however, sometimes such structures are damaged due to collision of boulders or fluid force of debris flow.
At a recent conference of engineers, planners, government officials and insurers, "Mitigating Disaster Through Design and Construction," the clear consensus was that there is a vast amount that we could, should and must do to mitigate disasters, but it requires vision and long-range thinking.
Subsequent interviews with a member of the local NGO One Acre Fund and with farmers helped complete the information regarding actual uses of climate forecasts to mitigate disasters' impacts on the ground, especially in the field of agriculture.
The promotion of participatory methods to mitigate disasters generally, and volcanic risk specifically, has been advanced by numerous scholars (Cronin et al., 2004; Cutter, 2003; Donovan, 2009; Gaillard, 2008; Gaillard & Mercer, 2012; Lane et al., 2011; Mercer, Kelman, Lloyd, & Suchet-Pearson, 2008; Wisner, Blaikie, Cannon, & Davis, 2004; Wisner, Gaillard, & Kelman, 2012).
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