Old and new ideas visited for comet and asteroid hazard mitigation strategies

Eos ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 75 (35) ◽  
pp. 402
Author(s):  
J. Wakefield
Keyword(s):  
Hazard Mitigation ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Asteroid Hazard ◽  
New Ideas

Avalanche Hazard Mitigation Strategies Assessed by Cost Effectiveness Analyses and Cost Benefit Analyses—evidence from Davos, Switzerland

2006 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sven Fuchs ◽  
Magdalena Thöni ◽  
Maria Christina McAlpin ◽  
Urs Gruber ◽  
Michael Bründl
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Hazard Mitigation ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Avalanche Hazard

Manufactured housing and the 2004 hurricane season: Assessing the effectiveness of hazard mitigation

2005 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin R. Grosskopf, PhD, CEM
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Damage Assessment ◽  
Hazard Mitigation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Assessment Data ◽  
Safety Standard ◽  
Manufactured Housing ◽  
Hurricane Season ◽  
Manufactured Homes

The vast majority of some 22-million manufactured housing residents in the United States are ethnic, elderly, low-income populations. As the fourth most populous and second fastest growing US state, Florida is home to one of the nation’s largest concentrations of manufactured homes in one of its most geographically vulnerable regions. After-action reports from Hurricanes Charley, Jeanne, Frances, and Ivan indicate that all manufactured housing units constructed after the 1994 Federal Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standard survived intact, whereas units constructed before 1994 suffered damage ranging from severe to catastrophic. This paper provides manufactured housing damage-assessment data from 60 of 67 Florida counties affected by the 2004 hurricane season according to various federal and state hazard mitigation strategies implemented from 1976 to 1999.

Storytelling—Plots of resilience, learning, and discovery in emergency management

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 363-371
Author(s):  
Bob Freitag, CFM ◽  
Thad Hicks, PhD, CEM, MEP ◽  
Alessandra Jerolleman, PhD, MPA, CFM ◽  
Wendy Walsh, MA
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Management ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Hazard Mitigation ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Kurt Vonnegut ◽  
Pedagogical Tool ◽  
The Public ◽  
Emergency Managers ◽  
History Of

Almost everyone can relate to the experience of telling a story. This article explores how storytelling is being used to identify risks and create hazard mitigation strategies, as well as how it can promote learning within the field of emergency management. Storytelling is both a pedagogical tool and an invaluable resource for practicing emergency managers. This article illustrates the ways in which the process of telling a story enables participates to talk about stressful concerns, internalize complex concepts, and even have fun. The article explores how storytelling drove the public process leading to the adoption of hazard mitigation plans, and how eight types of stories, as defined by the American humorist Kurt Vonnegut, can strengthen emergency management education. This article also explores how research suggests that storytelling can provide an effective way for both the tellers of story and their listeners to find meaning in events, provide context to what is being taught, transmit emotion along with information, develop a professional identity, build empathy and compassion, and help with remembering events and lessons learned. The authors have a long history of utilizing storytelling and present this article in order to share and explore storytelling as applied to the discipline of emergency management.

scholarly journals Rainfall-triggered landslides, anthropogenic hazards, and mitigation strategies

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 147-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. C. Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Hazard Mitigation ◽  
Population Expansion ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Control Structures ◽  
Social Interests ◽  
Catastrophic Loss ◽  
Extensive Property ◽  
Global Population

Abstract. Rainfall-triggered landslides are part of a natural process of hillslope erosion that can result in catastrophic loss of life and extensive property damage in mountainous, densely populated areas. As global population expansion on or near steep hillslopes continues, the human and economic costs associated with landslides will increase. Landslide hazard mitigation strategies generally involve hazard assessment mapping, warning systems, control structures, and regional landslide planning and policy development. To be sustainable, hazard mitigation requires that management of natural resources is closely connected to local economic and social interests. A successful strategy is dependent on a combination of multi-disciplinary scientific and engineering approaches, and the political will to take action at the local community to national scale.

Tsunami Preparedness and Mitigation Strategies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Goltz ◽  
Katsuya Yamori
Keyword(s):  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Hazard Mitigation ◽  
Significant Risk ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Indian Ocean Tsunami ◽  
Warning Systems ◽  
Tsunami Inundation ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Vertical Evacuation ◽  
Tsunami Preparedness

Tsunamis are natural hazards that have caused massive destruction and loss of life in coastal areas worldwide for centuries. Major programs promoting tsunami safety, however, date from the early 20th century and have received far greater emphasis following two major events in the opening decade of the 21st century: the Indian Ocean Tsunami of December 26, 2004, and the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of March 11, 2011. In the aftermath of these catastrophic disasters, warning systems and the technologies associated with them have expanded from a concentration in the Pacific Ocean to other regions with significant tsunami vulnerability. Preparedness and hazard mitigation programs, once the province of wealthier nations, are now being shared with developing countries. While warning systems and tsunami mapping and modeling are basic tools in promoting tsunami safety, there are a number of strategies that are essential in protecting lives and property in major tsunami events. Preparedness strategies consist of tsunami awareness and education and actions that promote response readiness. These strategies should provide an understanding of how tsunamis occur, where they occur, how to respond to warnings or natural signs that a tsunami may occur, and what locations are safe for evacuation. Hazard mitigation strategies are designed to reduce the likelihood that coastal populations will be impacted by a tsunami, typically through engineered structures or removing communities from known tsunami inundation zones. They include natural or constructed high ground for evacuation, structures for vertical evacuation (either single purpose structures specifically for tsunami evacuation or existing buildings that are resistant to tsunami forces), seawalls, breakwaters, forest barriers, and tsunami river gates. Coastal jurisdictions may also use land-use planning ordinances or coastal zoning to restrict development in areas of significant risk of tsunami inundation. The relative efficacy of these strategies and locations where they have been implemented will be addressed, as will the issues and challenges regarding their implementation.

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