
Updated: 21 Dec 2020
All my 2020 publications, podcasts and videos after the break …
Continue reading “My 2020 Publications, Podcasts and Videos”Updated: 21 Dec 2020
All my 2020 publications, podcasts and videos after the break …
Continue reading “My 2020 Publications, Podcasts and Videos”Earlier this year a paper of mine was published that review more than 50 studies that employ “normalization” methodologies to assess disaster losses over time.
Pielke, R. (2020). Economic ‘normalisation’ of disaster losses 1998–2020: a literature review and assessment. Environmental Hazards, 1-19.
Here I will continue to track literature that has been published since my review was completed.
Sajjad, M., & Chan, J. C. (2020). Tropical Cyclone Impacts on Cities: A Case of Hong Kong. Frontiers in Built Environment, 6, 172.
“It is important to note that through there is a significant increase in the TC-related non-normalized damages (95% confidence), this trend becomes insignificant after normalizing the damages with the corresponding years GDP. This finding is in line with the existing literature . . .”
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I chat with Steve Magness about the history and context of the remarkable changes underway in college athletics. Listen here.
Here in PDF is Chapter 4 of The Edge, on college athletics free to read. Here is the whole book at Amazon.
In this post I’ll share some of the data and analysis I’ve been compiling on diversity at the University of Colorado Boulder, where I am a professor. There is no way to sugar-coat this data — CU Boulder has a lot of work to do on diversity.
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