scholarly journals Roles revealed: An examination of the adopted roles of emergency managers in hazard mitigation planning and strategy implementation

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 101145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Samuel ◽  
Laura K. Siebeneck
Keyword(s):  
Hazard Mitigation ◽  
Strategy Implementation ◽  
Emergency Managers ◽  
Mitigation Planning

Public Participation in Planning for Community Management of Natural Hazards

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Sarzynski ◽  
Paolo Cavaliere
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Process Design ◽  
Hazard Mitigation ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
The Public ◽  
Emergency Managers ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Support Tools ◽  
Mitigation Planning ◽  
Participation Process

Public participation in environmental management, and more specifically in hazard mitigation planning, has received much attention from scholars and practitioners. A shift in perspective now sees the public as a fundamental player in decision making rather than simply as the final recipient of a policy decision. Including the public in hazard mitigation planning brings widespread benefits. First, communities gain awareness of the risks they live with, and thus, this is an opportunity to empower communities and improve their resilience. Second, supported by a collaborative participation process, emergency managers and planners can achieve the ultimate goal of strong mitigation plans. Although public participation is highly desired as an instrument to improve hazard mitigation planning, appropriate participation techniques are context dependent and some trade-offs exist in the process design (such as between representativeness and consensus building). Designing participation processes requires careful planning and an all-around consideration of the representativeness of stakeholders, timing, objectives, knowledge, and ultimately desired goals to achieve. Assessing participation also requires more consistent methods to facilitate policy learning from diverse experiences. New decision-support tools may be necessary to gain widespread participation from laypersons lacking technical knowledge of hazards and risks.

Hazard Mitigation Planning

2021 ◽  
pp. 296-332
Author(s):  
Dylan Sandler ◽  
Anna K. Schwab
Keyword(s):  
Hazard Mitigation ◽  
Mitigation Planning

State Hazard Mitigation Planning: Moving from Risk to Resilience in Vermont

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 06019001
Author(s):  
Tara Shenoy Kulkarni ◽  
Rebecca Sanborn Stone ◽  
Lauren Oates ◽  
Stephanie Smith
Keyword(s):  
Hazard Mitigation ◽  
Mitigation Planning

Strategies to Prepare Emergency Management Personnel to Integrate Geospatial Tools into Emergency Management

2011 ◽  
pp. 245-261
Author(s):  
Tricia Toomey ◽  
Eric Frost ◽  
Murray E. Jennex
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Management ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Earthquake Epicenter ◽  
Management Personnel ◽  
Emergency Managers ◽  
Diverse Field ◽  
Mitigation Planning ◽  
Geospatial Tools ◽  
Response And Recovery

Emergency management is a diverse field. Effective disaster management involves knowledge of various subjects as well as work experience in all aspects related to mitigation, planning, response, and recovery efforts. One field not being fully exploited by disaster management is the use of geospatial tools in the form of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), cartography, and geovisualization. One reason for this is that many emergency managers are not fully aware of the assistance GIS can lend to effectively manage disaster situations. All functions of emergency management have a strong geographic component. Where is the earthquake epicenter? Where is the damage? Where does the dam inundation run and who/what is in that path? Where is the area of road closures? The questions asking “where” are endless in effective emergency management and range from the mitigation stage through to the recovery stage. For example, a tsunami may inundate only a certain portion of the region, therefore, it is important to have mitigation and planning efforts concentrated in those regions. It is also important to know what businesses, housing, and populations are in the affected areas. The integration of geospatial tools for risk assessment, mitigation, planning, response, and recovery efforts is emerging as an effective and potentially invaluable resource for answering such questions in regards to emergency management.

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.

The variational effects of jurisdictional attributes on hazard mitigation planning costs

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Andrea M. Jackman, PhD ◽  
Mario G. Beruvides, PhD, PE
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Management ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Hazard Mitigation ◽  
Disaster Mitigation ◽  
Influential Factor ◽  
Mitigation Planning ◽  
Follow Up Studies ◽  
Final Rule ◽  
The Cost

Under the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 and Federal Emergency Management Agency's subsequent Interim Final Rule, the requirement was placed on local governments to author and gain approval for a Hazard Mitigation Plan (HMP) for the areas under their jurisdiction. Low completion percentages for HMPs—less than one-third of eligible governments— were found by an analysis conducted 3 years after the final deadline for the aforementioned legislation took place. Follow-up studies showed little improvement at 5 and 8 years after the deadline. Based on these results, a previous study hypothesized that the cost of creating a HMP might be an influential factor in explaining why most jurisdictions had failed to write or gain approval for a HMP. The frequency of natural hazards experienced by the planning jurisdiction, the number of jurisdictions participating in the plan, and the population and population density were found to explain more than half of the variation in HMP costs. This study is a continuation of that effort, finding that there are significant differences in cost both across ranges of values for the jurisdictional attributes and single-jurisdictional versus multijurisdictional plans.

Hazard mitigation planning utilizing the HAZUS-MH Flood Model and Hurricane Wind Model

2005 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. Pine, EdD ◽  
Hassan Mashriqui, PhD ◽  
Stephanie Pedro ◽  
Jennifer Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Planning Process ◽  
Flood Hazard ◽  
Hazard Mitigation ◽  
Wind Model ◽  
Hurricane Wind ◽  
Gis Data ◽  
Flood Model ◽  
Mitigation Planning ◽  
Data Layers ◽  
Economic Damages

This study uses FEMA’s new flood model software, HAZUS-MH (Multi-Hazard), to assess the socio economic damages following floods. HAZUS-MH provides dollar figures for land use planners, flood managers, and emergency planners to utilize in their pre- and post-disaster planning of the economical, social, and environmental consequences of flooding. HAZUS-MH estimates financial losses resulting from a 100-year flood by analyzing the potential direct and indirect economic damages that could occur in a local jurisdiction. HAZUS-MH Flood Model and Hurricane Wind Model was used to estimate losses in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as part of the jurisdiction’s hazard mitigation planning process. Depth grid maps and flood loss maps are explained and displayed to show the results of the flood hazard and loss analysis. The article evaluates HAZUS-MH against the criteria of quality, timeliness, and completeness. The different levels of HAZUS-MH are explained within the context of accuracy. The article also explains how geographic information system (GIS) data layers can be made available to public officials by use of a free downloadable GIS data reader.

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