185: From Mitigation to Management
From: World Ocean Radio
Series: World Ocean Radio: The Sea Connects All Things
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We are failing to manage successful response to climate challenges on land, along the coast and deep in the ocean; we are failing to manage within the structures that are already in place that might enable solutions. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will assert that we must embrace best management practices now and use new management tools to renovate and build for the future—not by resisting change but by embracing it for the better with renewed certainty and enthusiasm.
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Peter Neill, Director of the W2O and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays available for syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide.
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Piece Description
We are failing to manage successful response to climate challenges on land, along the coast and deep in the ocean; we are failing to manage within the structures that are already in place that might enable solutions. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will assert that we must embrace best management practices now and use new management tools to renovate and build for the future—not by resisting change but by embracing it for the better with renewed certainty and enthusiasm.
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Peter Neill, Director of the W2O and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays available for syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide.
Broadcast History
WERU 89.9 FM, Blue Hill, ME; California Academy of Sciences/Steinhart Aquarium; KSER-FM, Everett, WA; Erie Maritime Museum, Mystic Seaport, Maine Boats Homes & Harbors; 3CR Melbourne: Out of the Blue; thew2o.net/world-ocean-radio; Waiheke Radio, 107.4 FM, Waiheke Island, NZ; Stitcher.com; ITunes.
Transcript
To mitigate is to lessen the force or severity of a phenomenon – anger for example, or grief, pain, or physical attack. It is to make less severe, to become milder, softened, more gentle, appeased. Mitigation is a key word today for how we respond to natural challenges, frequently an engineered response – a dike or a drainage system that may defend or redirect flood water away from an agricultural or settled area, or a much larger project like the major tidal control gates and barriers that protect London from storm surge up the Thames or the Netherlands from similar threat alongshore to a nation mostly at sea level or below.
Disasters occur when these mitigating factors are overwhelmed, be they collapsed levees in New Orleans during hurricanes or our disappointment and dismay when we have not been able to protect ourselves against an emotional challenge. What then do we do? In too m...
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Additional Credits
Peter Neill, Host; Trisha Badger, Associate Producer
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