Barely a day goes by without another news story emphasizing the risk from more frequent and severe extreme weather in cities, counties, and regions across the United States. A few weeks ago a new Urban Institute analysis predicted, for example, that Tampa Bay and the eight surrounding counties will be facing more than $3.7 billion annually in property damage by 2050.

The National Academy of Public Administration’s Extreme Weather Resilience Hub aims to transform how people think about adapting to extreme weather events. Because the impact of extreme weather is most significantly felt at the local level, its focus is on identifying place-based solutions.

"Place-based solutions are essential for reducing risk from extreme weather impacts because they align mitigation and adaptation strategies with the unique environmental, social, and infrastructural characteristics of specific communities, thereby enhancing resilience and long-term sustainability," says Naim Kapucu, Academy Fellow and Pegasus Professor of Public Administration and Policy at the University of Central Florida. 

To learn more about this critical topic, tune in for an in-person event with a virtual option sponsored by the Academy’s Extreme Weather Resilience Hub on September 18 at 3:30 p.m. ET.  It will feature Alice Hill, Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment, Council on Foreign Relations; Derrick Hiebert, Infrastructure Resilience Leader at AECOM, Dan Nees, Policy and Finance Director of Throwe Environmental and will be moderated by Eric Leckey, Former Associate Administrator for Mission Support, FEMA.

To register and for additional information about the location, click here 

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