By Design: The Disaster Resistant and Quality-of-Life Community

We require no less than a whole new way of thinking about how we design and build our communities in natural hazard areas—seismic, coastal, and watersheds—if we are to ensure our societies' safety, health, and overall quality of life. Our present approach is inadequate and is inflicting great and growing harm—physically, environmentally, socially, economically, and emotionally—that we can no longer tolerate. The disaster resistant community (DRC) concept, the first and foremost step toward creating quality-of-life communities, was created specifically to provide this new way of thinking. Read More