By Douglas Clark
Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued last week new disaster resilience guidelines to help entities refine responses to the growing threat posed by natural disasters.
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The guidelines focus on three approaches or principles those managing disaster response efforts may find useful in strengthening national disaster resilience – accessing information that is authoritative and understandable to help decision makers identify current and future risk and the impact of risk reduction strategies; integrating analysis and planning to help decision makers take coherent and coordinated resilience actions; and providing incentives to help make long-term, forward-looking risk-reduction investments more viable and attractive among competing priorities.
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The need to enhance the federal government’s management of fiscal exposure to climate change has been on GAO’s High Risk List since 2013.