thesis proposal

Hello World.

Big Idea

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Def. www.wordnik.com

Sustainability

“N. Ecology a means of con�guring civilization and human activity so that society, its members and its economies are able to meet their needs and express their greatest potential in the present, while preserving biodiversity and natural ecosystems, planning and acting for the ability to maintain these ideals for future generations”

Image: Scale from The Noun Project

Balanced Continuum

Humanity Nature

Kumi Nadoo, Greenpeace International

“Nature doesn’t negotiate.”

Various News Organizations

Crisis Events

Hurricane Katrina (8.29.2005)Haiti Earthquake (1.12.2010)BP Oil Spill (4.20.2010)Fukushima (3.11.2011)Grímsvötn Volcano (5.25.2011)Hurricane Irene (8.21.2011)North American Drought (5.31.2012)Hurricane Sandy (10.29.2012)Typhoon Bopha (12.3.2012)

Sustainability is dead.

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Andrew Zolli, New York Times, Forget Sustainability, It's about Resilience

“Where sustainability aims to put the world back into balance, resilience looks for ways to manage in an imbal-anced world.”

Resilience

Andrew Zolli, New York Times, Forget Sustainability, It's about Resilience

Resilience Thinking

“It’s a broad-spectrum agenda that, at one end, seeks to imbue our communi-ties, institutions and infrastructure with greater �exibility, intelligence and responsiveness to extreme events and, at the other, centers on bolstering people’s psychological and physiological capacity to deal with high-stress circumstances.”

Risk Management vs. Risk Adaptation

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Dynamic Solutions

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Moving Parts

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Big Picture

Image: Earth designed by Francesco Paleari from The Noun Project

Image: United Nations Logo

2012 U.N. Climate Change Conference

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Adaptation, Finance, Mitigation, Tech.

Focus Points: UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

Closer to Home

Image: State Department of Maryland

Hurricane Sandy

Image: U.N. OCHA

Headlines

“NYC Storm Preparation: Mayor Bloomberg Announces Plans For City's Next Natural Disaster” -Huffpost

“With Sandy, a Call for Transforming Coastal Cities” -Huffpost

“2/3 of Sandy-Damaged Homes in N.Y. Were Outside the 100-Year Flood Zone” -The Atlantic

“Feds deny aid to Maryland residents hit by Sandy” -The Baltimore Sun

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Baltimore

Zoning Code Change

Image: Baltimore City Department of Planning

Climate Action Plan

Image: Baltimore Of�ce of Sustainability

Climate Adaptation Strategy

Image: Global Warming designed by Luis Prado from The Noun Project

Untapped Futures

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Levels of Intervention

One

A Few

A Group

All

http://whiteroofproject.org/

Case Study: White Roof Project

“If we were to coat 5 percent of roof-tops per year worldwide, we would be �nished by 2030. This would save us 24 billion metric tons in CO2. That happens to be exactly how much the world emitted in 2010. So, in essence, this solution would be like turning the world off for an entire year — while also saving some money on the energy bills.”

https://new.usgbc.org/

Case Study: L.E.E.D.

Case Study: Rising Current

Exhibit: MOMA Rising Currents

Challenges to Change

1. Perception shift to move beyond simply returning to normal.

2. Temperaments in radical change.

3. Convincing people of pro-active measures rather than reactive.

4. Creating funding in time of crisis.

5. Transitioning infrastructure standards.

6. Unknown

1. Create individual psychological awareness towards resilience

1. Identify opportunities for resilience systems in Baltimore.

2. Work with partners prototype strategies to maintain.

3. Facilitate connections across disciplines to create dialog and receive input around resilience systems.

4. Integrate and implement resilience systems in Baltimore, providing a framework to build upon in coming generations.

Moving Forward

Critical Questions

In a world of crisis, how can strate-gies be developed for Baltimore to adapt to dynamic physical, social and economic changes in response to climate change?

How can emergency management evolve into a more holistic emergencyadaptation?