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Utah Geological Association

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Environmental and Engineering Geology of the Wasatch Front Region, 1995
Pages 519-520

Pre-Disaster, Multi-Hazard Mitigation Planning Workshops for Communities

Robert D.Carey

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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has been evaluating their emphasis on hazard mitigation because of the number of Previous HitnaturalNext Hit Previous HitdisastersNext Hit throughout the nation in the last five years. The new mitigation strategy is on pre-disaster planning and proactive mitigation. A need for local governments to prepare hazard mitigation planning documents and to be made aware of resources available to them to complete the plan was identified. The method of introducing these processes to the communities was through local workshops dealing with area specific Previous HithazardsTop. A simple and direct approach with the rural communities of Utah was accomplished by using a workbook in which each participant created their own hazard mitigation plan.


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