Hazard mitigation and climate adaptation: Achieving community resilience through planning and emergency management

This interactive, hands-on workshop will provide training to city and regional planners and emergency managers working in government and the private sector on methods and techniques for planning and implementing hazard mitigation and climate adaptation policies and programs. During the two day workshop participants should expect to learn and apply state of the art mitigation and adaptation methods and techniques for various natural hazards and climate change scenarios; they are invited to bring example emergency management and/or comprehensive plans from their jurisdictions or practices for discussion.

Programme

- Federal and state laws and programs for hazard mitigation and climate adaptation
- Mitigation planning techniques
- Safe growth analysis
- Build-out analysis
- Hazard-specific mitigation implementation for hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and wildfires
- Climate adaptation principles and planning techniques
- Climate adaptation planning for sea-level rise
- Climate adaptation implementation
- How to integrate mitigation and adaptation into comprehensive plans at state, city, and county levels

Workshop schedule

November 12, 2010

8:00 a.m.–8:30 a.m.: Continental Breakfast/Registration
8:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.: Lecture/Presentation
12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m.: Lunch (on your own)
1:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.: Lecture/Presentation