Risk-based land-use guide: Safe use of land, based on hazard risk assessment
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This guide intends to assist municipal staff in determining whether land use proposals will be safe for their intended use.
The guide explains three key actions:
- How to integrate hazard risk management into existing land-use management instruments,
- How to determine if the hazard risk of a land-use proposal is acceptable,
- How to consider reducing the risk to tolerable and acceptable levels.
The recommendations that are provided are based on a community’s understanding of its risk from hazards. It describes goals of achieving acceptable risk, provides concepts of measuring risk from a hazard, and how to use that measure to determine the most cost-effective way to achieve acceptable risk.
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Country and region
Canada
Number of pages
72 p.
Publication year
2015