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Title: Multiple Hazard Mitigation: Report of a Workshop on Mitigation Strategies for Communities Prone to Multiple Natural Hazards, July 6-8, 1983, Snowmass, Colorado.
File: PB84154889.pdf
Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC., December 1983, 73 p.
Abstract: On July 6-8, 1983, 26 experts in community planning, geophysics, engineering, economics, and emergency management assembled in Snowmass, Colorado, to participate in a workshop on multiple hazard mitigation. The workshop's purpose was to shed light on current capabilities and needs relevant to the development of mitigation strategies for communities that are subject to a variety of natural hazards such as riverine and coastal floods, earthquakes, landslides, windstorms, and other potentially damaging natural events. This report describes the concept of multiple hazard mitigation in the context of natural hazard management as practiced in the United States today. It also presents highlights of the discussions at the workshop and summarizes those suggestions that were voiced concerning ways to foster the adaption of a multiple hazard approach to natural hazard mitigation.
Keywords: Planning; Emergency preparedness; California; Landslides; Meeting; Disasters; Floods; Tornadoes; Tsunamis; Storms; Management; Hawaii; Missouri; Communities; Earthquakes