Blog for Total FRM
Content that advances flood risk management
Please engage with others in the profession using the writings below. Click on the title to read, like, and comment on the articles. This is the foundry of ideas.
Who Owns the Flood Risk?
At the heart of our Nation’s flood problems is one question. I think it’s an ownership problem that is going to continue to eat away at any hope we have for flood resilience: Who owns the risk? Or very specifically, who owns the flood risk? This question prompts an important dialogue for partners that are…
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The Transformation FRM Needs
Flood risk management (FRM) needs a transformation. This practice of FRM, or flood mitigation…whatever is clearest in invoking the community of practice, needs direction and vision. We cannot sit, and be stuck, in the needed work towards flood resilience. The mindset needs to be shared across the federal-state-tribal-community-individual level. Think of this vision as building…
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The Infinite Game of Flood Risk Management
I was inspired by James Carse, Finite and Infinite Games, and I see a valuable cross section with the field of flood risk management. “There are at least two kinds of games. One could be called finite; the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning.” To be a flood management…
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