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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #188 Data Analysis for Climate Resilience
Description: UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction estimates that over the past 20 years, 1.2 million people have been killed by more than 7,000 disasters. It estimates the economic damage at just under $3 trillion. It also found that when compared to the 1980s and 1990s, this impact has almost doubled.
Countries are working to become more resilient, but even that term may mean different things in different conditions and environments. Resilience needs to be better understood.
In this episode we explore the role of data and its analysis when it comes to protecting people, infrastructure and homes from climate...