July 2019

Seismic Roundtable in Sacramento

| July 2019

Zahraa @Scyma joined a Seismic Roundtable at the California State Capitol in Sacramento to to discuss the development of a nationally applicable approach to seismic functional recovery for new construction. Brought to us by ICC and CALBO.

Read more about the outcome of the roundtable discussion here.

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2019 Natural Hazards Workshop

| July 2019

Presenting on behalf of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Scyma shared concepts of citizen advocacy and learned from researchers and practitioners the needs of science-to-policy capacity building at the 44th Annual Natural Hazards Workshop.

Earthquake Engineering Research Institute Citizen Advocacy: Creating Seismic Safety Public Policy Champions

The theme for this year’s Workshop is Convergence: Coming Together to Improve Hazards and Disaster Research, Practice, and Policy. Click here to learn more about Convergence.

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©Natural Hazards Workshop

DRR Pathways Canada

| July 2019

With Sage on Earth Consulting located in B.C., we kicked off a week of resilience and risk reduction discussions for B.C. and greater Canada supporting the DRR Pathways Project.

Disaster Risk Reduction Pathways | Incentives for Mitigation and Adaptation Investments

Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Safety and Security Program (CSSP)

Building disaster resilience in BC and Canada by enhancing understanding systemic risk and evidence-based disaster risk management including the socio-economic value of investing in mitigation and adaptation measures for managing earthquake and flood risk.

Learn more about DRR Pathways here.