Calculating the cost of disaster vs. the price of resilience

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In Sandy's aftermath, most have been concerned with getting life back to "normal." A few are calling for resilience to handle what’s now being dubbed the 'new normal'

By June 2012, many had forgotten the devastation Hurricane Katrina wrought on New Orleans some seven years earlier. Few had the foresight to predict Sandy and the crises it would cause New York City and...

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