Gordon McBean
Gordon McBean
Dr. Gordon McBean, CM, is a Canadian climatologist who serves as chairman of the board of trustees of the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences. He is a professor at the University of Western Ontario and Chair for Policy in the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction. Previously he was the Assistant Deputy Minister of Meteorological Service of Canada...
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It's time to change the mindset of governments, who tend to plan too little for natural disasters.
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Scientists have to get involved with the policy-making community right from the beginning and try to understand what the constraints on policy-making are.
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We have an opportunity right now right after disasters while governments are more receptive to influence policy from the start.
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We can't actually stop hurricanes or tsunamis or other extremes of nature. But ... we can avoid a lot of unnecessary human and economic losses.
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It's time to change the mind-set that natural disasters are inevitable.