Scigliano: Exclusions in Disaster Risk Index

Scigliano: Exclusions in Disaster Risk Index

For Politico, Eric Scigliano writes about the many local geological hazards that are not, somehow, accounted for in FEMA’s new National Risk Index. The ambitious federal project intends to map disaster risks across the country to aid in the allocation of funds for...

Nelson: Risky Business

Good news from Bryn Nelson (@SeattleBryn) about climate change? Writing for Nature, Bryn says that extreme weather, flooding, and fires are cataclysmic for communities but they’re creating jobs for natural-hazards risk analysts. Governments, financial institutions and...