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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”
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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
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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
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Hurricane Sandy
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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
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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?