Hazard Mitigation

This guide is designed to help cities and counties prepare pre-event plans for post-disaster recovery. Individual sections address national recovery preparedness efforts, key concepts for recovery planning, linking pre-disaster response planning and pre-disaster recovery planning, linking pre-disaster recovery planning and post-disaster recovery planning, pre-disaster recovery planning key activities, forming a collaborative planning team, understanding the situation, determining goals and objectives, developing the plan, reviewing and approving the plan, and plan implementation and maintenance.