Matters of Policy & Politics

Area 45: The Trillion-Dollar Storm With Alice Hill

How can the US plan for and build resilience for catastrophic natural disasters?

Matters of Policy & PoliticsMarch 25, 2019
Area 45: The Trillion-Dollar Storm With Alice Hill

As economically devastating as this decade’s hurricanes and wildfires have been, the US is looking at even worse scenarios in the years ahead. Alice Hill, a Hoover Institution research fellow focusing on building resilience to catastrophic events, discusses how the nation can better plan for the inevitable, plus the latest on the Trump Administration, Democrats and the climate-change debate.

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