Water's Edge & Mitigation
In Water’s Edge, why did New Braunfels argue against restricting building along the river?
Tax revenue
Retrofitting my house to better withstand an earthquake.
Structural
Instituting and enforcing strong building codes is an example of what?
Non-Structural Mitigation
This assessment helps prioritize probabilities and consequences.
Risk assessment
This outlines an action for achieving a goal.
Procedure
After the 1998 Central Texas flooding, most federal emergency assistance was used to do this.
Rebuild in harm’s way
Changing my password every six months.
Non-Structural
This federal agency oversees about a third of the nation’s levee systems.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
This assessment helps identify strengths and what can actually be addressed with available resources.
Capability assessment
This may be a law, regulation, or formal statement of principles and expectations.
Policy
This general federal program supports state and local mitigation projects.
Hazard Mitigation Grant Program
Building a levee to keep floodwater out of a city.
Structural
The American Society of Civil Engineers usually gives U.S. infrastructure these kinds of grades.
Low grades
This assessment often uses maps and tools like HAZUS to see whether a community may be hit by a flood or earthquake.
Hazard assessment
Policies deal with organizational structures, personnel, and this.
Equipment and systems
This Trump-era mitigation program has been suspended, creating funding problems for states.
Building Resilience Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC)
Wearing a mask during a pandemic.
Non-Structural
This U.S. code consolidated fragmented regional and hazard-based codes.
International Building Code
This assessment points to differential impacts and the challenges faced by specific groups.
Social vulnerability assessment
Planning can best be described as this.
A process
Research often shows that every $1 spent on mitigation saves about this much in disaster losses.
About $6
Elevating a home by 10 feet in a floodplain.
Structural
Reinforced protective space designed for high winds and projectiles.
Safe room
This assessment asks how much risk a community will tolerate and how much mitigation it will pay for.
Loss estimation
Training and exercises progress based on capabilities and this.
Complexity