Source aquifer, which has fueled this community for generations, for hundreds of years, and really, the confluence of waterways is why this region was settled in the first place. Today, even though we are a burgeoning metropolitan area, seventh largest city in the country, you can see our riverwalk, which is one of the top tourist destinations in the world, be part of a great urban revitalization that also includes Ecosystem Restoration on a 25kilometer riverway. Of course, something im very proud of is that, here we are on the footsteps of one of the largest fossil fuel reserves in the entire world, and we just ratified a Climate Action Adaptation Plan that, on my first day in office as mayor, we chose to declare ourselves in the paris climate accord, and we ratified that plan just a few months ago to help us implement strategies to make compliance with the accords. San antonio is one of the Fastest Growing cities in the country, and so our challenges in what were working on is really
Inventing disaster the culture of calamity from the Jamestown Colony to the johnstown flood. Copies will be for sale. Thrilled to be with you to hear her talk. I hope you will join me in a very warm welcome for cindy kerner. [applause] prof. Kierner in 2012, Superstorm Sandy destroyed many places i cared about. It was not in the ocean on a road on it. Stories about this storm really riveting. Especially the Human Interest stories about its victims, survivors, efforts to provide post Disaster Relief in the way in which the whole says situation became politicized. It happened so soon before president ial election. I also found it interesting what all the stories told us about the larger story worlds of new york and new jersey. In the United States generally. In 2012. , i noticedortant that the news followed a pattern familiar to me from katrina and other disasters. The quantitative information about what happened. How many people died, how much property was destroyed in the value of that