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- Title
- State and Local Migitation Planning How-to Guide. Understanding Your Risks: Identifying Hazards and Estimating Losses.
- File
- PB2004100840.pdf
- Source
- August 2001, 167 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- FEMA-386-2
- Abstract
- The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has developed this series of mitigation planning 'how-to' guides to assist states, communities, and tribes in enhancing their natural hazard mitigation planning capabilities. These guides are designed to provide the type of information states and communities need to initiate and maintain a planning process that will result in safer communities. These guides are applicable to states and communities of various sizes and varying ranges of financial and technical resources. This how-to series is not intended to be the last word on any of the subject matter covered; rather, it is meant to be an easy to understand guide for the field practitioner. In practice, these guides may be supplemented with more extensive technical data and the use of experts if possible.
- Keywords
- Tsunami; Landslides; Floods; Identify hazards; Natural hazards; State government; Hazard profiles; Mitigation planning; Coastal storms; Loss estimation; Tornado; Profile hazard events; Local government; Losses; Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA); Risks; Wildfire; Asset inventories; Earthquakes