Exam 13: Disaster Resilience

"No advere impact" refers to the concept that regulations about floodplain management should not negatively impact property values.

Some communities choose to model and plan for their flood risk based on the assumption that the land will be developed at a future time within the watershed.

While hazards are a function of the natural world, vulnerability to disasters is a function of

While no communities ever want to experience a disaster, explain why the aftermath of such an event is an important and valuable time to prioritize hazard mitigation.

A major obstacle to implementing hazard reduction measures involves the public's misunderstanding of risk and the fact that most people do not want to believe that their community will ever experience disaster.

During the decade between 2000 and 2009, 54 weather and climate disaster exceeded $1_______, compared with 27 such events between 1980 and 1989.

Which of the following is a communication strategy to help the public understand and take actions to reduce risk?

_______ is a software developed by FEMA to provide potential damage and loss estimates for earthquake, hurricanes, and flooding.

Which of the following resources provides information that planners or emergency managers could use to incorporate the best available data during a risk assessment?

Every state has a State Hazard Mitigation Officer who provides support to local communities carrying out mitigaiton planning.

Effective risk _________ is an important role of emergency managers, because the public often do not want to believe that their community will ever experience a disaster.

____________________ is a method of using natural areas and ecological systems as a form of infrastructure to mitigate hazards and enhance the ecological health of an area.

Former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, explained that building a culture of disaster prevention is difficult due to the fact that:

Due to mitigation efforts implemented around the United States, disaster losses have declined significantly over the last few decades.

If a given property has a 1% chance of flooding in any given year, it is typically described as being within the ____________.

The U.S. _______ is conducted every ten years and is a valuable source of information about demographic trends in the United States.

As watersheds are developed, the increase in ____________, such as pavement and rooftops, causes more water from a storm to run off the land's surface into the drainage system and streams, and usually at a faster pace, than was the case before development.

Each type of nonprofit environmental organization pursues its own priorities, but many of their objectives may overlap with local or state management goals for hazard mitigation in environmentally sensitive or ecologically fragile lands.

Imagine you are an emergency manager leading a campaign to increase the number of residents with active flood insurance policies. Describe what strategies and messages you would use in outreach materials and presentations.

Research about the value of mitigation suggests that for every dollar invested in mitigation, _____ dollars are saved.