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Making Mitigation Work May Webinar - Communication for Community Resilience: The Homeowner’s Handbook to Prepare for Natural Hazards
Webinar Description
The Homeowner’s Handbook to Prepare for Natural Hazards, now in it’s fourth edition, provides Hawaii homeowners with location-specific hazard information on evacuation planning, how to retrofit homes to reduce risk, insurance, what emergency supplies to keep on hand, and much more. Having this information can inform individual emergency plans and motivate homeowners to strengthen their homes.
Education efforts like the Handbook have helped Hawaii homeowner’s retrofit approximately 2,500 homes, reducing the cost of potential risk by an estimated $1 billion dollars. Such advancements have led the Hawaii State legislature formulate a communication plan that will use the Handbook, along with other strategies, to incorporate the Whole Community, as conceptualized by the Federal Emergency Management agency, into these efforts.
Join us in this webinar as Dennis Hwang discusses the history of the handbook, its content, and the communication strategies that will help extend its reach.
Speakers
Dennis Hwang, University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program, NOAA
This webinar is part of the Making Mitigation Work webinar series.
The Natural Hazards Center, in partnership with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is pleased to announce this new webinar series, Making Mitigation Work. These free one-hour webinars feature innovative speakers and highlight recent progress in mitigation policy, practice, and research. https://hazards.colorado.edu/training/webinars/making-mitigation-work
