Claire Rubin shared a PowerPoint presentation that Susan also did last year titled, In Harm's Way: Why More Knowledge is Not Reducing Natural Hazard Losses.
The executive summary is basically: We know more than we did, yet we keep having bigger disasters that cost more in property and human life losses.
I've written about this for years now. Even emergency managers are guilty of not using the science resources that are available to us today. Not that anyone will listen, but someone has to tell the story first before the advice and knowledge can eventually be ignored.
We need to tell the story. Maps help greatly in storytelling. If you notice, children's books have lots of pictures and our briefings to elected officials need to contain a lot of pictures called "maps." In fact if you are only going to use one PowerPoint slide, make it a map!
