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travail permettra d'accélérer le développement de médicaments et tests

hhs.gov - News - communiqué de presse - 2 septembre 2014

le développement d'un médicament pour traiter la maladie d'Ebola sera accéléré sous contrat avec l'US Department of Health and Human Services des Bureau du sous-secrétaire pour la préparation et d'intervention ( ERPS). Ce contrat prend en charge la réponse du gouvernement – large à l'épidémie d'Ebola en Afrique de l'Ouest.

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ASPR Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority ( BARDA) vont une contribution ainsi que l'accès à l'expertise de l'objet et support technique pour les activités réglementaires et non cliniques de fabrication, grâce à un $ 24,9 millions, 18 mois contrat avec Mapp biopharmaceutique Inc., San Diego, en Californie. ERPS peut prolonger le contrat jusqu'à un total de $ 42,3 millions.

Travaux prévus au contrat prend en charge le développement et la fabrication des médicaments dans le but d'approbation U.S. Food and Drug Administration ZMapp.

Here are some more Facilitation Examples.  By Facilitation I am meaning general activities by planners, and others that cause or guide development, to influence the development of the built environment toward structural adaptivity as we progress into an ever more uncertain and unpredictable future.  Some might call them implementation strategies or “calls to action.”

These examples have not been identified or studied by teams of experts; they are only my personal ideas intended to illustrate possibilities.  Hopefully, however, they will convey a sense of the real prospects for structural adaptivity to be achieved.  I believe that structural adaptivity is critical to resilience over the long term.

Promote the Futurist Perspective.  With more attention in our society to the “futurist perspective,” sooner rather than later, such attention will also come to focus on the need for all forms of adaptivity, including structural adaptivity in our urban areas and regions.  Structural adaptivity is the most, if not only, logical approach to facing a future that now is uncertain, unpredictable and rapidly changing.

I have been proposing that, rather than trying to foresee the future, we consider accepting and conducting further research on a much more fundamental, all-encompassing and long-term-resilient approach to our built environment.  I have been proposing that such an elemental approach should be structural adaptivity.  I believe that our world must and will give maximum adaptivity to the basic elements of our built environment to adjust to and meet our needs for the unpredictable, rapidly changing world over the next 50-100 years. 

In working on this, I conducted an Exercise.  I experimented with a number of different future conditions, or scenarios, that I think are quite possible.  The first two that drew my strongest concern were the conflicting scenarios of: (1) how planners might address our urban areas after global warming has abated – and the problem is continuous hot weather and more storms – as opposed to (2) how planners are now addressing the need to stop or slow down global warming.  I also experimented with additional scenarios that I do not think we are able to, presently, forecast accurately.  Most of them, however, I believe will surface eventually, in one way or another, and cause huge problems.

submitted by Samuel Bendett

homelandsecuritynewswire.com - by David Killick - August 15, 2014

You do not see it, but you certainly know when it is not there: infrastructure, the miles of underground pipes carrying drinking water, stormwater and wastewater, utilities such as gas and electricity, and fiber-optics and communications cables that spread likes veins and arteries under the streets of a city.

That calamity hit Christchurch, New Zealand, in a series of earthquakes that devastated the city in 2010 and 2011.

The organization created to manage Christchurch’s infrastructure rebuild – it is called SCIRT, for Stronger Christchurch Infrastructure Rebuild Team— has a vital role, and it has become something of a global model for how to put the guts of a city back together again quickly and efficiently after a disaster.

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SCIRT - http://strongerchristchurch.govt.nz/