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Bioretention Hydrologic Performance (HyPer) Model (revised 12/5/11) 1.3 MB .xlsm Some older web browsers are unable to download this .xlsm file correctly Permeable Pavement Hydrologic Design Model (revised 8/12/08) 1.9 MB .xls Bioretention Design Spreadsheet Model (revised 8/01/07) 0.1 MB .xls Green Roof Hydrologic Simulation Model (from Penn State) 0.4 MB .xls Rainwater Harvester Design Model (revised 12/08/08) 3 MB .zip Bioretention Thermal Model (revised 12/10/08) 0.3 MB .zip

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community-based food production

Alt_News : Message: Fw: Radically Changing How We Eat | How 2011 Changed Us Forever | 9 Laws that Keep Cities from Going Green: community-based food production can rebuild and sustain more than just food:, "By localizing the production and consumption of food, we can generate employment along the entire value chain (from production to distribution to retail). We can also rebuild our social fabric, address our health crisis, and significantly reduce our carbon footprint."

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Lessons from Asia: Post-Disaster Recovery | In Asia

Lessons from Asia: Post-Disaster Recovery | In Asia: 3) Work through and empower local organizations and institutions on good governance to ensure sustained recovery.

Before bringing in outside help, first identify local organizations and individuals that are experienced in disaster preparedness, management, or emergency response.

Citizen participation in development planning helps ensure that locally-identified needs are prioritized for funding, and can ameliorate oversight and transparency concerns between funders, local authorities, and intended beneficiaries of aid, which is essential for long-term sustainability.

Empowering local government leaders improves longer-term capacity to respond to local needs. This can often be the slowest part of post-disaster recovery, but as in post-tsunami Sri Lanka, when local leaders were struggling to respond to their community’s needs, The Asia Foundation made a commitment to work through these local institutions instead of seeking short-term gains of going around them to provide services directly to citizens.

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New business attitude to risk - UNISDR

New business attitude to risk - UNISDR: GENEVA, 24 February 2012 - The business world is on "the cusp of a major revolution" in its understanding of disaster risk reduction as insurance industry demands force a shift from traditional accounting-based management to risk-based management, according to Rowan Douglas, CEO Global Analytics at Willis Group.

Speaking today in Geneva at the second joint meeting of the UNISDR Private Sector Advisory Group with diplomats from the UNISDR Support Group, he said this new form of financial management will soon begin to have an influence on company behaviors as assets are valued with closer reference to their exposure to risks.

He said that the UNISDR Private Sector Advisory Group is still in its infancy and "the challenge ahead is to integrate the awareness of risk into the economic system in order to make countries and populations resilient."

Mr. Douglas who is also vice-chairman of the UNISDR Private Sector Advisory Group, said that the last ten years of remarkable shocks had been like an overture to a 21st century symphony as the world looks ahead to "a perfect storm of environmental challenges, population growth and an increasing number of disasters."

He observed that today we have a great scientific understanding of natural catastrophes through the kind of risk modeling developed for UNISDR's Global Assessment Report but the challenge remains to "go from intellectual awareness to action in both the public and private sectors."


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