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Words into Action Guidelines: Implementation Guide for Land Use and Urban Planning
2020by: Spira Narang Suri, Cassidy Johnson, Barbara LipietzThis guide is designed to help planners integrate disaster risk reduction and resilience into their work. -
Words into Action Guideline: Man-Made/Technological Hazards
2018by: Emilia Wahlstrom, Chadia WannousThis guide is designed to help local and national governments reduce vulnerability to human-made hazards. -
Using Benefit-Cost Review in Mitigation Planning
May 2007This guide is designed to help cities and counties conduct cost-benefit analyses to prioritize hazard mitigation actions. -
The Landslide Handbook—A Guide to Understanding Landslides
2008by: Lynn Highland, Peter BobrowskyThis guide is designed to help communities understand and mitigate landslide risks. -
A Model Sea-Level Rise Overlay Zone for Maryland Local Governments
November 2011by: Jessica Grannis, Eric Swanson, Christine WymanThis model ordinance provides a template to help cities and counties in Maryland draft zoning overlays to protect against sea-level rise. -
Minnesota Sample Floodplain Ordinance Three District Ordinance
April 2020This model ordinance provides a template to help cities and counties in Minnesota draft regulations for floodway, flood fringe, and floodplain districts. -
Model Coastal Erosion Overlay Zone
2012This model code provides a template to help cities and counties in Oregon draft zoning overlays to minimize coastal erosion. -
Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance: Idaho Model Ordinance
April 2020This model ordinance provides a template to help cities and counties in Idaho draft floodplain management regulations. -
Model Code-Coordinated Ordinances
September 2019by: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)These model ordinances provide templates to help cities and counties draft floodplain regulations that are coordinated with International Codes. -
Illinois Model Stormwater Management Ordinance
September 2015This model ordinance provides a template to help municipalities in Illinois draft stormwater management regulations that encourage green infrastructure tactics. -
Model Local Laws to Increase Resilience
June 2019These model ordinances provide templates to help municipalities in New York draft regulations that enhance community resilience. -
Model Floodplain Ordinance
December 2013This model ordinance provides a template to help cities in Minnesota, without official flood hazard boundary maps, draft floodplain regulations. -
Restrictive Floodplain Management Ordinance
April 2020This model ordinance provides a template for cities and counties with largely undeveloped floodplains draft floodplain management regulations. -
Municipal Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance
2009This model ordinance provides a template to help cities in Tennessee draft flood damage prevention regulations. -
Municipal Floodplain Zoning Ordinance
2009This model ordinance provides a template to help cities in Tennessee draft floodplain management regulations. -
Boulder County, CO, Comprehensive Plan
Updated 2017The county’s comprehensive plan includes information on a variety of environmental resource designations, and includes extensive policy recommendations for its transfer of development rights program within the Plains Planning Area. -
Clackamas County, OR, Comprehensive Plan
Updated September 2018The county’s comprehensive plan includes hazard mitigation policy recommendations in multiple chapters. -
Chehalis, WA, Comprehensive Plan
Adopted June 2017The city’s comprehensive plan includes policy recommendations that address flood and geological hazard mitigation. -
Hurricane Matthew: Finding the Silver Lining through Mitigation & Disaster Recovery
April 2018by: Robert Coates, Charles Baker, Mari RadfordThis recorded webinar profiles hazard mitigation efforts in Virginia following Hurricane Matthew. -
Hazard Mitigation and Historic Preservation: How to Both Preserve and Protect
June 2018by: Deepa Srinivasan, AICPThis recorded webinar discusses hazard mitigation strategies for historic properties. -
Introduction to Natural Hazards Mitigation Planning
April 2017by: Brett Holt, Amanda Siok, Tim CookThis recorded webinar introduces hazard mitigation planning and explains the importance of integrating mitigation in other local plans. -
Making Communities More Resilient Through Local Mitigation Planning
July 2017by: Shannon Burke, Lawrence Frank, Allison HardinThis recorded webinar discusses opportunities to link hazard mitigation planning to other local planning efforts. -
Hazard Mitigation Planning in Nebraska
October 2012by: Jeffrey Ray, AICPThis recorded webinar provides an overview of hazard mitigation planning in Nebraska. -
Tools to Plan for Hazards Resilience and Climate Change
August 2015by: Lauren Long, David BetenbaughThis recorded webinar highlights two resources developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to help facilitate resilience planning in coastal communities. -
Tools to Visualize and Plan for Coastal Hazard Resilience
July 2015by: Brandon Krumwiede, Lauren Long, Rebecca LovelandThis recorded webinar profiles four Digital Coast tools planners can use in hazard mitigation planning efforts. -
Recent Changes to the National Flood Insurance Program
December 2014by: Jayme Thomann, AICPThis recorded webinar profiles recent changes to the National Flood Insurance Program and their effects on local mitigation planning. -
Sea Level Rise 101: How to Select and Use Sea Level Rise Data for Planning and Policy Decisions
February 2020by: Nicole Faghin, Matthew CampoThis recorded webinar discusses choices planners have when applying sea-level change science. -
Climate Change and Flood Resilience
July 2019This video discusses how the complexity of urban environments make it difficult to effectively deploy flood mitigation strategies. -
The 1993 Great Midwest Flood: Voices 10 Years Later
May 2003This case study profiles various flood mitigation efforts following historic flooding in the Midwest. -
Moving Mitigation Forward: The Past, Present, and Future of Hazard Mitigation Assistance
October 2019by: Eric LetvinThis recorded webinar explains the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program. -
Planning in Uncertainty: Recovery and Disaster Resilience in Cities
November 2011by: Douglas Ahlers, Miho Mazereeuw, Joyce RosenthalThis recorded panel discussion presents a deep dive on hazard mitigation after disasters. -
Planning for Flood Recovery and Long Term Resilience
November 2015by: Jayme Thomann, AICPThis recorded webinar contrasts the goals of emergency management plans and hazard mitigation plans. -
Planning for Wildfire Resiliency
December 2018by: Molly Mowery, AICP, Will SmithThis recorded webinar discusses the importance of land-use planning to wildfire hazard mitigation. -
Can We Build Disaster Resilient Communities?
April 2013by: Gregory KoppThis video explains the importance of engineered structural details to mitigating natural hazards. -
Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction
March 2013by: Sarbjit Singh SahotaThis video discusses proactive community-based planning to reduce humanitarian crises associated with natural and human-caused disasters. -
Sustainable Rebuilding Post Disaster
August 2016by: Robert DixsonThis video discusses how Greensburg, Kansas, planned for a more sustainable future following a devastating tornado. -
How to Transform Sinking Cities into Landscapes That Fight Floods
February 2019by: Kotchakorn VoraakhomThis video discusses the potential for large new parks to mitigate flood hazards. -
Flood Resilient Cities for an Uncertain Future
January 2018by: Marcus QuigleyThis video discusses the potential for distributed flood storage systems to mitigate flood hazards. -
Building Your Roadmap to a Disaster Resilient Future
October 2017by: Edward Thomas, Alessandra Jerolleman, Terri Turner, AICPThis guide is designed to help communities take advantage of pre- and post-disaster programs and resources that can help mitigate the effects of natural, technological, and human-made hazards. -
Planning for Hazards: Land Use Solutions for Colorado
January 2020This guide is designed to help cities and counties in Colorado minimize their hazard risk by integrating hazard mitigation principles and practices into plans and regulations. -
Plan Integration: Linking Local Planning Efforts
July 2015This guide is designed to help cities and counties integrate consistent hazard mitigation principles and practices across the local planning system. -
Post-Disaster Redevelopment Planning
June 2018This guide is designed to help cities and counties in Florida reduce their risk from future hazards as they rebuild from a disaster. -
Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard Guidebook
September 2019by: Philip Berke, Jaime Hicks Masterson, Matthew MalechaThis guide is designed to help cities and counties understand and discuss inconsistencies in their plans that can reduce community resilience. -
Integrating Disaster Data into Hazard Mitigation Planning
February 2015This guide is designed to help communities understand how to use data from previous disasters in hazard mitigation planning processes. -
Integrating Manmade Hazards Into Mitigation Planning
September 2003This guide is designed to help states and local communities mitigate human-caused hazards. -
National Storm Surge Hazard Maps
2020This interactive map depicts storm surge flooding vulnerability along the Gulf and East Coasts, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Hawaii, and Hispaniola. -
Getting to Resilience: A Community Planner Evaluation Tool
2015This toolkit helps planners assess their community’s vulnerability and enhance its resilience to hazards. -
Community Planning Series for Pandemic Influenza Preparedness
June 2013This toolkit consists of a series of facilitator guides to help communities plan for pandemic influenza. -
Natural Hazards Viewer
March 2020This interactive map depicts significant recorded tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions globally. -
Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas
October 2013This interactive map depicts current and projected future global water risks.