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4.03.2014
How Do We Make Our Cities More Resilient? Make Them More Natural
Scientists predict that extreme meteorological events are becoming more
frequent and destructive. For instance late last year, Typhoon Haiyan,
the strongest storm recorded in the world so far, decimated central
island cities in the Philippines. Recent data sourced from the Japanese
Meteorological Agency indicated extreme weather occurrences across the
globe. These pose critical challenges to our current and future
rebuilding programs in cities where extreme weather has become the new
“benchmark for disaster prevention,” as suggested during a congress
meeting in the Philippines by the UN Champion for Disaster Risk
Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation for Asia Pacific, Senator Loren
Legarda. What are the systems and strategies that can get us to
resiliency?
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