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the role of community foundations in disaster mitigation
September 18, 2024, 12:00 PM CST
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Community foundations can be an overlooked actor within the realm of disaster preparedness, but stand to play an outsized role in the recovery process. Such organizations must be intentionally designed to most effectively serve an area during a time of crisis, which is what the Miami Foundation has done in Florida, a state increasingly plagued by climate disasters.
This webinar will highlight the changes that the Miami Foundation has made to its crisis response model over the past few years, including the creation of a revolving fund that can be immediately dispersed to nonprofits in the event of a disaster. It will also examine how these changes have affected the Miami area and aided in short-term recovery while discussing takeaways for other communities on how to implement these strategies themselves. The role of planners in disaster recovery and their relationship to community foundations will also be discussed.
Nikisha Williams is the Vice President of Collective Impact at the Miami Foundation. Kevin Currie is a training coordinator at the Association of State Floodplain Managers.
National Risk Index Applications in Hazard Mitigation Planning: Practitioner Case Studies
May 15, 2024, 1:00 PM CDT
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FEMA's National Risk Index (NRI) data and interactive website are just coming into broad use and are showing potential to provide a powerful and much-needed link between hazard science and practice. The NRI models risk for every county in the United States using a consistent methodology for 18 natural hazards, including flood, drought, severe weather, and more. These results can be downloaded and directly integrated into state and regional hazard mitigation plans risk assessments, allowing comparative analysis and understanding of large-scale risk trends. Besides being readily available, one of the benefits of the NRI in state hazard mitigation plan updates is the ability to analyze comparative flood risk using a consistent methodology, including rural areas that often do not have flood maps. Another benefit is the ability to access social vulnerability data and resiliency indices readily.
Jeff Brislawn is a hazard mitigation and emergency management consultant with WSP. Brian Neff is a Hazard Mitigation and Resilience Specialist at WSP. Kevin Currie is a training coordinator at the Association of State Floodplain Managers.
Meet the Presenters
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Jeff Brislawn
Jeff Brislawn is a hazard mitigation and emergency management consultant with WSP USA Environment & Infrastructure Solutions, Inc., and has over 30 years of related experience for state and local governments. Jeff has been the project manager on more than 65 local and state hazard mitigation planning projects, including the Utah State Hazard Mitigation Plan in 2023-2024, and has been a contributor to numerous others. Jeff's background includes 12 years of public sector experience including work for the Colorado Office of Emergency Management and FEMA. Jeff has assisted numerous state, local, and federal clients with hazard risk assessment and related resiliency planning including multi-hazard mitigation plans, drought mitigation and response plans, dam failure evacuation plans, and local emergency operations plans. Jeff has an M.S. in Geology from Colorado State University and a B.S. in Geology from Ohio University and is a Certified Floodplain Manager.
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Brian Neff
As a Hazard Mitigation and Resilience Specialist, Dr. Neff works to integrate science into hazard planning in innovative ways. Dr. Neff's research extends to both physical and social sciences, including his doctoral studies on the transformation of water policy and a Randy Boggess Award as co-author of the paper of the year published in the Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA). Expertise includes a variety of approaches to hazard resilience, hydrology, water supply and wastewater, and hazard planning. A passion for applying science to improve society recently led Dr. Neff to WSP USA, where he spends most of his time working with communities to develop hazard mitigation plans.
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Kevin Currie
Kevin Currie, ASFPM's training coordinator since July 2018, works with staff, volunteer leadership, members, and chapters to identify training needs. He is responsible for managing, developing, and deploying ASFPM's comprehensive training program. This is his second term of employment with ASFPM, having previously worked for the association from 2012 to 2015 as our membership coordinator. He received his BA in political science from the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire in 2010.
Cross-Agency Coordination for Effective Hazard Mitigation and Recovery
December 15, 2023
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The third installment of the Planning Information Exchange will focus on how to coordinate hazard mitigation policies and practices across local agencies, with an emphasis on the interplay between emergency management officials and building and planning departments. It will also discuss the role that community planning plays in bringing about the greatest safety measures for a district's constituents when faced with a natural disaster.
Speakers will delve into both specific components of this process — such as building, fire, and land use codes — as well as broader strategies that can be employed. These include coordinating plans across a jurisdiction that pertain to public safety in the context of hazard mitigation and ensuring alignment in these plans to achieve maximum efficacy. While the speakers come from a background of local and regional planning, lessons can be applied to all levels of governance for those who work in hazard mitigation and recovery capacities.
Lori Hodges is the Director of Emergency Management for Larimer County, CO. Eric Fried is Larimer County's Chief Building Official. Lesli Ellis is the Community Development Director of Larimer County. Joseph DeAngelis is a Research Manager at the American Planning Association.
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Lori Hodges
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Eric Fried
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Lesli Ellis
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Joseph DeAngelis
How to Bridge Planning Efforts to Achieve Resilience
June 29, 2023
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This second installment of the Planning Information Exchange will demonstrate how several types of planning can be integrated into the theme of resilience and should be coordinated for consistency. Examples will include local mitigation strategies, regional resiliency plans, vulnerability assessments, and other county-, regional-, and state-level planning efforts. In addition, the presentation will discuss examples of integrating equity considerations and emphasizing partner collaboration across applicable plans, including a comparison between two systems for the evaluation of community impact.
This webinar will also provide information about creating mitigation and resilience plans with intention. Through storytelling, this presentation will explore a series of disasters that shaped community needs, followed by lessons learned and best practices for coordinated mitigation and resilience planning and prioritization. Speakers will highlight how these efforts have been implemented using a triple bottom line approach to ensure built environment professionals can advance beneficial actions for those who need it most.
Fara Ilami is a regional resiliency manager with the Northeast Florida Regional Council. Lori Hodges is the director of emergency management for Larimer County, CO. Kevin Currie is the training coordinator for the Association of State Floodplain Managers.
Meet the Presenters
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Fara Ilami
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Lori Hodges
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Kevin Currie
The Only Constant is Change: Hazard Mitigation Updates
May 18, 2023
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Hazard mitigation practices evolve to address developing conditions and enhance community resilience. One recent change is FEMA's new Local Mitigation Planning Policy Guide, released in April 2022 and going into effect in April 2023. This new guidance connects various federal programs and promotes whole-community mitigation investments. Planners and floodplain managers can prepare for these changes, and be better prepared to address multiple hazards, by learning from firsthand accounts of plan development processes.
This first installment of the Planning Information Exchange will emphasize broad approaches to hazard mitigation practices, focusing on updated guidance for plan development. It will provide examples of how communities on the ground are adapting floodplain management and planning practices to align with recent updates. Further, it will highlight how hazard mitigation plan development can promote equitable outcomes for underserved community members.
Nathan Slaughter is a certified professional planner and floodplain manager with over twenty-four years of experience in hazard mitigation planning, disaster recovery planning, business development, and project management. Brenda Defoe is the Director of Planning for the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council, where she ensures uniformity across the diverse work led by the council across its eight-county region. Benjamin Almquist is the Director of Emergency Management for the City of Charleston, where he focuses on all-hazards disaster planning and management, as well as FEMA mitigation and recovery. Jo Peña, AICP, is a research associate at the American Planning Association.
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Nathan Slaughter, AICP, CFM
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Brenda Defoe-Suprenant
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Benjamin Almquist
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Jo Pena, AICP
Foresight and Scenario Planning for Hazard Mitigation and Climate Adaptation
October 31, 2022
As a key component of the practice of foresight, exploratory scenario planning offers significant benefits for planning in dynamic and complex systems. Thus, it can be a particularly useful tool in planning for natural hazards and adapting to climate change, given the complexity and uncertainty involved in both of these areas. Though hazard mitigation and climate adaptation are overlapping fields, scenario planning has thus far been more widely used within climate adaptation than in hazard mitigation. This is largely because the federal regulatory processes and requirements that drive most hazard mitigation planning in the United States do not address scenario planning. Climate adaptation planning, which is not widely standardized and is more often driven by local and regional needs rather than federal requirements, has more readily adopted tools like scenario planning.
This PIE webinar will define the use cases for scenario planning for both hazard mitigation and climate adaptation and outline the challenges to its wider adoption among planners, floodplain managers, and allied practitioners. Additionally, this webinar will offer guidance on the use of data and tools that support more robust decision-making through scenario planning and highlight practical examples of communities using scenario planning to mitigate hazards and adapt to the impacts of climate change more effectively.
Donovan Finn, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Sustainability Studies Program and Director of the Undergraduate Degree in Environmental Design, Policy, and Planning at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University. Joseph DeAngelis, AICP, is a planner and research manager at the American Planning Association. Jo Peña, AICP, is a research associate at the American Planning Association.
Meet the Presenters
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Donovan Finn, PhD
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Joe DeAngelis, AICP
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Jo Pena, AICP
Lost In Planning: Interdependent Vulnerabilities And Compounding Climate Threats
September 27, 2022
It is often said that "...a city is a system of systems", but the aging infrastructure in these systems is a vulnerability exacerbated by natural hazards and climate variability. The 2018 National Climate Assessment highlighted that current water management and planning principles leave communities exposed to more risk than anticipated, as risks evolve and hazards can interweave and compound one another.
FEMA's guidance for Hazard Mitigation Plans (HMP) advises communities to address natural hazard design events and encourages them to address manmade and technological hazards. However, the HMP does not require an overview of aging infrastructure in hazard analyses. Without recognizing that resiliency depends on reliability, we are missing the point of the most basic definition of a resilient system as one that performs its intended function under baseline conditions and can quickly recover, after some adversity. Identifying vulnerabilities and how they impact a community's resilience makes it possible to curtail expensive, unplanned, and reactive responses so that we can prioritize and prevent hazardous disruptions — so life and business go on uninterrupted.
This webinar will show how we can use predictive algorithms to generate vulnerability assessments across key community infrastructure sectors, including potable water, transportation, energy, communications, and sanitation. This innovative approach addresses how the collocation of infrastructure can obscure the true vulnerability of our communities and flaws in their resilience.
Paul Robinson is a Senior Water Resources Leader and Jacobs' Global Community of Practice Lead for Flood Modeling and Planning, based in Houston, Texas. Mark Reiner, Ph.D., PE, is the Director of Resilient Infrastructure at Jacobs. Kevin Currie is a Training and E-learning Coordinator at ASFPM.
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Paul Robinson
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Mark Reiner, PhD, PE
Equitable Hazard Mitigation: Practice-Informed Recommendations for Change
July 25, 2022
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Hazard mitigation can play an important role in promoting equitable outcomes for historically marginalized communities. Portland, Oregon, is working with the community to meet immediate needs and reduce future risks associated with floods, heat, and other hazards. Join the next PIE webinar to learn more about how Portland identified context-sensitive solutions by integrating public engagement activities, including innovative outreach strategies, implementation strategies, and collaboration between local agencies with hazard mitigation and emergency management functions to support a more resilient future.
This webinar will focus on how to apply an equity lens to ongoing hazard mitigation planning processes, focusing on elevating underrepresented voices and implementing solutions for people experiencing disproportionate impacts from local hazards. Participants will learn about some of Portland's successful strategies and some efforts that did not work as well.
Jonna Papaefthimiou is the Chief Resilience Officer for the City of Portland, Oregon. Jo Pena is a research associate at APA.
Meet the Presenters
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Jonna Papaefthimiou
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Jo Peña, AICP
New Research on State Resilience Planning Practices
May 26, 2022
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More than 15 states — coastal and inland, and with governments from across the political spectrum — are developing innovative and comprehensive resilience strategies to reduce the impacts of floods and other climate hazards. These strategies work across agencies and sectors to integrate statewide resilience priorities into new existing efforts through a whole of government approach. By evaluating current and future risks, engaging local governments, and establishing regional priorities, state officials are hoping to effectuate smarter decisions about where and how to invest. Despite these recent initiatives, no consistent practices or protocols currently exist. State leaders are seeking examples of effective strategies to systematically incorporate resilience.
To help inform this new era of climate adaptation, The Pew Charitable Trust's flood-prepared communities team supported research with the Urban Institute and the American Flood Coalition that assesses state resilience plans across the country and identifies promising practices and in-depth analyses in select states. Pew will present the recent findings of key components for flood resilience plans which can inform future approaches for practitioners, policymakers, and advocates. This research is part of Pew's effort to build and share resources dedicated to state-level adaptation initiatives through the State Resilience Partnership. Because states are central to connecting federal resources and mandates with local needs and priorities, officials have an outsized role in implementing meaningful and equitable solutions to the challenges of climate change.
This PIE webinar will focus on state-level resilience and adaptation strategies to systemically and equitably reduce the impact of floods and other climate hazards.
Mathew Sanders, AICP is a senior manager for the Flood-Prepared Communities initiative at The Pew Charitable Trust. Chad Berginnis is the executive director of ASFPM.
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Mathew Sanders, AICP
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Chad Berginnis
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act: A Primer for Planners and Floodplain Managers
December 15, 2021
One of the most talked-about legislative actions of the year, the bipartisan infrastructure package was signed into law in November 2021. But how does the bill impact local floodplain managers and planners? What are the new federal funding opportunities around hazard mitigation? Our team of policy experts will examine the most important and impactful federal infrastructure funding passed as part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
This PIE webinar will focus on the policy implications of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, emphasizing options for hazard mitigation at the local level.
Attendees of this webinar will: (1) Learn about new federal funding opportunities for planners and floodplain management professionals and (2) Understand critical aspects of the new legislation that could impact hazard mitigation at the local level.
Samantha Medlock is senior counsel for the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis. Meg Galloway is a senior policy advisor at ASFPM. Jason Jordan, AICP is the public affairs director at APA.
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Samantha Medlock
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Meg Galloway
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Jason Jordan, AICP
Addressing Urban Heat at Regional and Local Scales
October 15, 2021
More frequent and intense heat events present significant environmental, social, health, and economic impacts to communities around the country. Join this next PIE webinar to learn more about how communities are responding to and preparing at different scales to address extreme heat. Kate McCormick, associate at the Georgetown Climate Center and lead author of Community-Informed Heat Relief: Policy Options for Addressing Urban Extreme Heat in High-Risk Communities, and Jared Patton, associate planner at the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning and a lead contributor to the Climate Action Plan for the Chicago Region, will discuss strategies to advance local and regional resilience, informed by recently published resources. The webinar will highlight opportunities for community engagement, partnerships, and equitable action to mitigate heat impacts.
This PIE webinar will focus on actions local and regional agencies can take to address extreme heat, case examples from around the country, and collaborative opportunities to increase community resilience.
Attendees of this webinar will: (1) Learn about local and regional activities to increase community resilience to extreme heat events, (2) Explore policy options to address heat impacts, informed by case examples around the country, and (3) Learn about the role of cross-sector collaboration to envision, plan for, and implement heat mitigation strategies.
Kate McCormick is an Institute Associate at the Georgetown Climate Center. Jared Patton, AICP is an associate planner at the Chicago Metropolitan Agency of Planning.
Meet the Presenters
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Kate McCormick
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Jared Patton, AICP
The Law's the Limit: Sea Level Rise Adaptation and Local Government
September 3, 2021
Climate change and sea-level rise fundamentally alter the risks of flooding, necessitating correlative changes in how we think about and implement planning & policy to avoid flood risk. The past is no longer a prologue to the future. This presentation will begin with some of the global-scale implications of physical changes occurring today and draw out overarching legal, policy, and social implications. This will be followed by a deeper dive into specifics of planning and law, including a discussion of the No Adverse Impact approach to floodplain management. The presenters will conclude with lessons learned, including some tentative lessons emerging from the ongoing ASFPM project of the presenters to build upon historical flooding legal resources in developing the No Adverse Impact Legal Guide.
This PIE webinar will focus on sea level rise from the perspective of local governments, the legal implications of rising seas, and how communities can adequately adapt to sea level rise.
Attendees of this webinar will: (1) Understand local government tradeoffs and perspectives concerning sea level rise, and (2) Learn about the legal liability for infrastructure. and (3) Be provided with information regarding the limits of the zoning and land use control actions communities can take.
Thomas K. Ruppert, Esq. is a Coastal Planning Specialist for the Florida Sea Grant at the University of Florida. Jerry Murphy, JD, AICP, CFM is a Faculty Consultant for the Program for Resource Efficient Communities at the University of Florida
Meet the Presenters
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Thomas K. Ruppert, Esq.
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Jerry Murphy, JD, AICP, CFM
Linking Conservation and the FEMA Community Rating System: Tools to Protect Habitat, Enhance Coastal Resilience and Reduce Flood
April 15, 2021
Working with cities and land trust partners in Gulf Coast communities, TNC has developed tools that facilitate the identification and selection of nature-based projects that can protect habitats and enhance coastal resilience while earning Federal Emergency Management Agency's Community Rating System (FEMA CRS) points to reduce rising and uncertain flood insurance rates. The approaches being shared during this webinar, including the CRS Explorer App and the CRS Greenprint process, have direct applications for land trusts in the Gulf of Mexico and across the US.
This PIE webinar will focus on The Nature Conservancy's efforts to link conservation and restoration with CRS. Conservation activities, such as buying and protecting undeveloped lands and restoring wetlands, are 'nature-based solutions' that are creditable under CRS.
- Learn about ongoing projects that connect flood insurance rates, community resilience, and conservation.
- Learn about tools to identify and select nature-based projects to protect habitats and improve community resilience.
Meet the Presenters
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Christine Shepard, Ph.D.
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Thomas Mohrman
USACE Inundation Mapping
December 18, 2020
Managing the risks posed by dams and levees requires hazard/risk awareness, planning, diligent monitoring, quick response to distress, and regular communication among federal, state, and local officials, the private sector, and the public. Inundation maps are a crucial component of communicating flood risk but require a communication strategy to aid understanding. A comprehensive strategy must involve modern information-sharing methods that give interested parties the ability to work with United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) inundation maps within their chosen decision support systems. Web-based interactive maps are rapidly becoming the most utilized inundation map format. With recent lessons learned and the inundation mapping state of practice in mind, USACE has recently updated its policies on inundation map information sharing. Most inundation maps produced by USACE are fully accessible to the public. This means enhanced information access and a greater understanding of flood risks for floodplain managers, planners, and the public. Exceptions to publicly sharing the inundation maps are being considered over the next year.
This webinar will focus on recent changes in USACE policy for public dissemination of emergency action plan (EAP) maps and inundation maps during flood emergencies.
- Learn about recent updates to USACE inundation map sharing policies making them accessible to the public.
- Be updated on USACE plans to make dam EAP maps publicly available within the National Inventory of Dams (NID) in late 2021.
- See a demonstration of how they will be able to access and use USACE dam emergency action plan EAP maps once available in the NID.
Meet the Presenters
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Jason Sheeley
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Travis Tutka, PE
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Phoebe Percell, PE
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Chad Berginnis, CFM
Planning for Wildfire: From Assessing Risk to Long-Term Mitigation
November 20, 2020
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The 19th webinar in the series features discussions from Cody Knutson, research professor, and drought planning coordinator at the National Drought Mitigation Center, and Jeff Brislawn, CFM, hazard mitigation and emergency management consultant with Wood Environment and Infrastructure Solutions. They will discuss approaches to assessing and integrating drought into local hazard mitigation planning. Joe DeAngelis, AICP, senior research associate with the American Planning Association, will moderate as participants learn about: As increasingly widespread and destructive wildfires continue to threaten communities across the United States, planners, and allied professions will play a crucial role in not only local recovery, but also long term mitigation. While a variety of tools for natural hazards such as flooding and coastal storms are widely accepted by practitioners, planners are less familiar with similar tools for assessing and planning wildfire risk and mitigation. However, the USDA Forest Service in partnership with Headwater Economics and under the direction of Congress, hopes to change that dynamic with its new website and wildfire risk visualization tool Wildfire Risk to Communities.
This PIE webinar will focus on this emerging web-based platform in informing planners on wildfire risk, specific techniques for determining long-term mitigation through planning, and how map-based wildfire visualization can help fill critical gaps in the wildfire hazard mitigation toolkit. APA Research Manager Joe DeAngelis, AICP, will moderate this webinar. He will be joined by Kimiko Barrett, Ph.D., lead wildfire researcher and policy analyst for Headwaters Economics; James Menakis, national fire ecologist with the USDA Forest Service; Greg Dillon, spatial fire analyst with the USDA Forest Service; and Frank Fay, applied fire ecologist in the Fuels and Fire Ecology Program with the USDA Forest Service.
- Get a live demonstration on how to use interactive maps, charts, and resources available for every community, county, and state in the U.S.
- Learn how the website and downloadable resources can help land use planners, emergency managers, elected officials, and fire managers prioritize actions to mitigate risk.
Meet the Presenters
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Kimiko Barrett, PhD
Kimiko Barrett is the lead wildfire researcher and policy analyst for Headwaters Economics, a nonpartisan research organization based in Bozeman, Montana. She is the program manager for Community Planning Assistance for Wildfire (CPAW) and works closely with communities to plan and mitigate wildfire risks. Barrett has a PhD in Forestry from the University of Montana and specializes in natural hazard adaptation, vulnerability, and resilience. -
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James Menakis
Jim Menakis has been the National Fire Ecologist for Forest Service Washington Office Fire and Aviation Management since 2010. Previously, Menakis worked at RMRS Missoula Fire Science Laboratory for 20 years on research projects relating to fuels and fire ecology, national mapping projects, and applying the best available science to support management needs. Today he is working on evaluating the effectiveness of fuel treatment, wildfire risk assessments, and performance metrics. Menakis received his BS in Forestry and MS in Environmental Studies from the University of Montana, Missoula. -
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Greg Dillon
Greg Dillon is a spatial fire analyst with the USDA Forest Service in Missoula, Montana. He is part of the Fire Modeling Institute, a group at the Missoula Fire Sciences Lab that focuses on applied science. Much of his current work involves mapping wildfire hazards and risks. He has two degrees in Geography (BS from James Madison University and MA from the University of Wyoming), and he's been working with GIS for about 25 years. Earlier in his career, Dillon worked in the George Washington National Forest in Virginia, the National Forests in North Carolina, and the Mt Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest in Washington. He came to the Fire Lab in 2004 to do potential vegetation mapping for the national LANDFIRE project, then joined the Fire Modeling Institute in 2011. He is also a member of the Northern Rockies Wildland Fire Management Team and the National Wildfire Coordinating Group's Geospatial Subcommittee. -
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Frank Fay
Frank Fay works for the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) as an applied fire ecologist in the Fuels and Fire Ecology Program, Fire and Aviation Management, Washington D.C. His responsibilities include work on LANDFIRE, the Hazardous Fuels Program, and wildfire risk. On previous assignments, Fay has worked in Utah, Oregon, and California. He has a BS in forestry from Humboldt State University and did graduate work at the University of Washington. Fay is certified as a fire ecologist, silviculturist, and climate change professional. -
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Joe DeAngelis, AICP
Joe DeAngelis is a planner and Research Manager with the American Planning Association in Chicago, where he focuses on climate adaptation, natural hazard risk, and community resilience. DeAngelis received his planning degree from CUNY-Hunter College, where he researched post-Hurricane Sandy recovery and long-term community adaptation. He has worked for the New York City Mayor's Office, the National Park Service, and as a Resiliency Planner with the New York City Department of City Planning. DeAngelis is the co-author of PAS Report 596: Planning for Infrastructure Resilience and is also the co-editor of Zoning Practice, a monthly APA publication.
Planning for Drought and Cascading Hazards
August 15, 2019
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The 19th webinar in the series features discussions from Cody Knutson, research professor, and drought planning coordinator at the National Drought Mitigation Center, and Jeff Brislawn, CFM, hazard mitigation and emergency management consultant with Wood Environment and Infrastructure Solutions. They will discuss approaches to assessing and integrating drought into local hazard mitigation planning. Joe DeAngelis, AICP, senior research associate with the American Planning Association, will moderate as participants learn about:
- Specific challenges and opportunities in planning for drought and cascading natural hazards
- Practical approaches to assessing local and regional drought vulnerability
- Methods for integrating drought and drought-related impacts into multi-hazard mitigation planning
- Resources and tools that can help planners and floodplain managers plan for drought in a multi-hazard context
Meet the Presenters
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Cody Knutson
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Jeff Brislawn, CFM
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Joe DeAngelis, AICP
Go Green With GASB 62!
April 25, 2019
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Investments in distributed water strategies, including conservation/restoration projects and green infrastructure, can generate both water quality and flood loss reduction benefits. However, these initiatives are usually limited in scope and scale as they are funded as "annual expenses" following conventional accounting rules.
Recently, those accounting rules have been expanded to make it easier for cities, towns, and other public entities to finance decentralized projects. The General Accounting Standards Board's (GASB) Statement 62, along with the new 2018 Implementation Guidance, provides a path forward for public utilities opting to capitalize on expenses in distributed infrastructure. This new guidance has the potential to unlock millions in new investment for funding green infrastructure and stormwater solutions, jumpstarting greater community resilience.
ASFPM Executive Director Chad Berginnis will moderate as Cynthia Koehler, executive director of the Water Now Alliance, and Janet Clements, an economist with Corona Environmental Consulting, discuss this new implementation guidance and its potential impacts. Specifically, the webinar will discuss:
- How the new GASB Guidance can support green stormwater infrastructure
- What you need to know to take advantage of the opportunity to use capital to scale up investment in decentralized projects
- Case studies from around the country where communities are starting to invest in decentralized systems
- Tap into Resilience, WaterNow's new website dedicated to helping communities and practitioners learn about and implement onsite, localized water strategies with tools, resources, and connections to experts
Meet the Presenters
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Cynthia Koehler
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Janet Clements
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Chad Berginnis, CFM
Flood Economics
February 13, 2019
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The 17th webinar in the series involves discussions from Hilary Steiner and Anil Sarda of The Economist Intelligence Unit, a forecasting and research arm of the Economist Group, publisher of The Economist newspaper. They discuss their research into the economics of flood mitigation and associated best practices for communities nationwide. Shannon Burke, manager of APA's Hazards Planning Center, moderates the discussion. This webinar addresses new insights into flood loss avoidance based on a series of community case studies, a wide-ranging analysis of over 20,000 flood mitigation projects spanning all 50 states and Puerto Rico, the business case for flood mitigation, and vital lessons learned from planners and floodplain professionals on the economics of flood mitigation.
Meet the Presenters
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Hilary Steiner
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Anil Sarda
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Shannon Burke
Research Topics in Disasters, Hazard Mitigation, and Resilience
October 9, 2018
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Many of the top universities in the United States invest time, energy, and financial resources into researching the issues that come with natural disasters. Indeed, several universities have founded entire disaster research centers to draw conclusions from data and make recommendations for hazard mitigation practices. This webinar convened national experts and thought leaders from three universities — the University of Colorado's Natural Hazards Center, the University of North Carolina's Coastal Resilience Center, and Texas A&M University to lay out the scope and discuss the implications of current research into disasters, hazard mitigation, and resilience
ASFPM Executive Director Chad Berginnis, moderated as Lori Peek, Director of the Natural Hazards Center and professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder, Sam Brody, Regents Professor and holder of the George P. Mitchell '40 Chair in Sustainable Coasts at Texas A&M University, and Gavin Smith, Director of the Department of Homeland Security's Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence at the University of North Carolina discuss the most exciting, up-to-date hazard mitigation and resilience research being undertaken by each of their organizations. In this webinar, the presenters discussed:
- Acquainting practicing planners and floodplain managers with some of the leading research on these topics and the resources that their universities have to offer.
- The data needed to better prepare and plan for the wildfire/flood dynamic
- Understanding where the problems are now to mitigate wildfire risk
- Communicating risk and taking actions in rural communities and urban environments, including the use of FEMA's Flood after Fire Toolkit
Meet the Presenters
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Lori Peek
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Sam Brody
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Gavin Smith
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Chad Berginnis, CFM
Flood Risk Reduction: Putting Planning into Practice
July 18, 2018
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Moving toward plan implementation is often a difficult step for communities, especially concerning flood hazard mitigation. However, ensuring that plans are well-integrated, policies are mutually supportive, and codes and ordinances align with community goals all play a major role in a community's aspirations of resilience.
Participants will learn :
- How to adapt plans for on-the-ground realities
- Specific land use policies that promote flood resilience, and
- How to coordinate within regions and local governments to realize long-term community resilience
Shannon Burke, manager of APA's Hazards Planning Center will moderate as Tanya M. Stern, deputy director for planning, engagement, and design with the District of Columbia Office of Planning, and Seth Jensen, principal planner with the Lamoille County (Vermont) Planning Commission, discuss how their communities have used tools such as plan-making, zoning and subdivision ordinances, and locally integrated policies to actualize flood disaster resilience in a land use context.
Meet the Presenters
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Tanya Stern
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Seth Jensen
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Shannon Burke
The Fire/Flood Dynamic
May 15, 2018
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2017 was a grim year for wildfires. Over 1 million acres burned in Montana and in California. Nearly 9,000 wildfires burned 1.2 million acres of land destroying over 10,000 structures and killing at least 46 people. Then in 2018, more than 30,000 people were ordered to evacuate in Santa Barbara County as an atmospheric river rain event occurred in the same wildfire-ravaged area. Sadly another 21 people lost their lives as a result of flooding and mudflows.
Flood risk grows significantly in areas burned by wildfires and human encroachment into these areas means lives and property are at stake. Yet some things can be done by property owners and local and state officials to lessen the risk.
ASFPM Executive Director Chad Berginnis moderated as Michele Steinberg, manager of the National Fire Protection Association's (NFPA) Wildfire Division, and Traci Sears, Montana's state floodplain manager & NFIP state coordinator, discussed:
- How the aftermath of wildfires contributes to flooding problems, including mudflows
- The data needed to better prepare and plan for the wildfire/flood dynamic
- Understanding where the problems are now to mitigate wildfire risk
- Communicating risk and taking actions in rural communities and urban environments, including the use of FEMA's Flood after Fire Toolkit
Meet the Presenters
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Traci Sears, CFM
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Michele Steinberg
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Chad Berginnis, CFM
Flood Hazard Mitigation in Historic Districts
January 31, 2018
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Historic communities and districts face several challenges when attempting to mitigate flood hazards. The 13th webinar in the PIE series features a presentation on flood hazard mitigation in historic districts by Louisette Leonard Scott, AICP, CFM, director of planning and development for the City of Mandeville, Louisiana. Shannon Burke, manager of APA's Hazards Planning Center, will moderate.
Louisette Scott will discuss:
- Keeping the historical context of your community intact while reducing risk through hazard mitigation
- Embracing mitigation to protect historic properties
- Local issues faced by planners when dealing with design standards and flood hazard areas
- The various problems faced by homeowners associations when dealing with long-term flood hazards
Meet the Presenters
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Louisette Scott, AICP, CFM
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Shannon Burke
Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard
October 4, 2017
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A community may have a large number of plans addressing a variety of issues: housing, economic development, parks/open space, land use, emergency response, and hazard mitigation are just some of them. The question is, are all of these plans aligned to accomplish your community's resiliency goals? Or are they at cross-purposes with each other?
ASFPM Executive Director Chad Berginnis, moderated as Jaimie Hicks Masterson, associate director of Texas Target Communities, and Phillip Berke, PhD, director of the Institute of Sustainable Coastal Communities through Texas A&M University, discussed an exciting research project and tools being developed for the practitioner community. The project will spatially evaluate networks of plans to reduce hazard vulnerability.
Meet the Presenters
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Jaimie Hicks Masterson
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Philip Berke, PhD
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Chad Berginnis, CFM
Naturally Resilient Communities
May 30, 2017
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Green infrastructure can play a crucial role in helping to reduce flood risk, while also providing a wide variety of additional benefits, including improved water quality, enhanced recreational opportunities, and wildlife habitat. In this webinar, planning professionals from Miami-Dade County, Florida; Milwaukee; and Pierce County, Washington, will discuss how they are using green infrastructure to address community flood risk.
This webinar will also feature a description and demonstration of the Naturally Resilient Communities web-based tools that can help your community plan for green infrastructure.
APA Hazards Planning Center Manager Jim Schwab, FAICP, will moderate as Nate Woiwode (The Nature Conservancy), Katie Hagemann (Miami-Dade County Office of Resilience), Karen Sands (Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District), Jacob Pedersen (Pierce County, Washington), and Jill Dixon (Sasaki Associates) discuss:
- The benefits of green infrastructure in managing flood risk and cultivating community co-benefits.
- Green infrastructure case studies of Miami-Dade County, Milwaukee, and Pierce County.
- The Nature Conservancy's new web-based tool to help planners, practitioners, and local officials identify nature-based solutions for managing flood risk at various scales and community contexts. This webinar will include a live demonstration of the tool.
Meet the Presenters
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Jacob Pederson
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Jill Dixon
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Karen Sands, AICP
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Katherine Hagemann
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Nate Woiwode
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Jim Schwab, FAICP
Post-Disaster Temporary Housing: Urban Planning Considerations
March 23, 2017
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After large-scale disasters, the mission of temporary housing is critical. Much has changed since Katrina — one of the largest temporary housing operations in modern history: the technology to construct temporary housing, considerations for resilience, the development and use of the National Disaster Recovery Framework, and a more integrated approach to disaster recovery. Future disasters, especially in anticipation of more intense storms, may challenge us further.
In this webinar, you will learn about the importance of knowing where and how your community will provide temporary housing after a disaster, current federal policies that pertain to the temporary housing mission, new technologies, and standards for improving the resilience of temporary housing, and, incorporating post-disaster housing considerations into local plans and policies.
Meet the Presenters
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Shannon S. Van Zandt
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Thomas A. Womeldurf
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Chad Berginnis, CFM
Subdivision Design and Flood Hazard Areas
December 2, 2016
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Please join three professionals as they dive into APA's new PAS Report, Subdivision Design, and Flood Hazard Areas. The discussion will begin with an overview of the drivers, issues, and standards of PAS 584 by Chad Berginnis, executive director of the Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM). Next, retired Licking County, Ohio, Planning Commission Director Jerry Brems will discuss local issues that planners face when dealing with design standards and flood hazard areas. Finally, Tyler Berding, founding partner of the California law firm Berding & Weil LLP will speak about the many problems homeowners associations confront when dealing with flood hazards over the long term.
Meet the Presenters
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Chad Berginnis, CFM
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Jerry Brems
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Tyler Berding
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Jim Schwab, FAICP
State Resiliency Initiatives: From Issue to Action!
September 22, 2016
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Two state floodplain and resilience professionals discussed how two different statewide approaches are being implemented to better enable their communities and citizens to be more resilient. The conversation focused on the drivers for these state-level initiatives, ties to planning efforts, implementation opportunities and challenges, and community-level actions that have resulted.
Meet the Presenters
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William Nechamen
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Iain Hyde
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Chad Berginnis, CFM
The Role of Hazard Mitigation in Post-Disaster Recovery
May 6, 2015
As disasters become more prominent in the United States, the role of hazard mitigation is enormous in the outcome of a city's recovery effort. In this webinar, two professionals discussed the importance of hazard mitigation and the role it plays in the post-disaster recovery effort.
Meet the Presenters
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Eugene Henry, AICP, CFM
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Allison Boyd, AICP