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July 2016 Issue 12 Page 1

By: Kevin Snyder, Federal Disaster Recovery Coordinator, FEMA Region III

As you are well aware, torrential downpours in West Virginia between June 22 and 29 caused devastating flash flooding and mudslides wreaking havoc across 18 counties and leading to 23 confirmed deaths. In response to this disaster FEMA and the State of West Virginia have gone max effort to support the disaster survivors. What you may be less aware of is that FEMA Region III has been leaning forward to support what will be a long recovery process. On June 29th – still during the incident period – my FDRC counterpart from FEMA Region I, Jim McPherson, was in Charleston identifying recovery opportunities, helping to stand up a housing task force, and laying the ground work for our Advance Evaluation – one of the first steps in determining the need for federal support of recovery efforts.

Many of you – our Region III recovery partners – also leaned forward, reaching out to us within days of the event to offer your assistance. This

turned out to be a great help as it provided us with early awareness of some of the pre-event issues or initiatives the impacted communities were

facing – all without interrupting critical response efforts. This assistance, and the early help of the West Virginia National Guard (WVNG), allowed

us to gather critical information for the Advance Evaluation and begin to set the stage for our interagency recovery coordination efforts. Realizing

that recovery from this event will be a long-term effort that requires coordination across the whole community, the Governor appointed a Chief

Recovery Officer, Adjutant General James A. Hoyer of the WVNG, and a State Disaster Recovery Officer, Cabinet Secretary Keith Burdette of the

WV Department of Commerce.

While most of the work is still ahead of us, these early actions – and the partnerships we’ve built across Region III over the past few years – should

have long-term benefits as we work to advance the recovery and enhance the resilience of impacted West Virginia communities.

FEDERAL DISASTER RECOVERY COORDINATOR’S CORNER

REGION III

NATIONAL D ISASTER

RECOVERY FRAMEWORK

STERNGTHENING DISASTER RECOVERY

FOR THE NATION

“MY PATH ALONG THE RECOVERY ROAD”

A FAREWELL MESSAGE FROM

JACK SCHUBACK

After 32 years of service with FEMA, I am retiring June 30. What a wonderful, heartwarming journey! I saw many people facing their biggest challenges, and it was most touching to see them take on those challenges for the sake of their families and communities. Equally if not more moving were my many opportunities to see people like you enabling those citizens to get their lives restored. It would not, it could not, happen without you. I will miss many things from my career, but no doubt it is my colleagues and fellow civil servants that I will miss most. What you do matters. More so, what you do is a necessity that must be done. THANK YOU!

Jack Schuback holds up his “SS FEMA” life saver signed by the FEMA Region III

staff and presented to him at his retirement luncheon in June.

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By: Katie Lipiecki, Risk Analysis Branch, Mitigation Division, FEMA Region III

For the past several years, Maryland’s unique, statewide approach to

defining and creating resilient communities has produced a wealth of

valuable data on both riverine and coastal hazards. The State also

recently formed the Maryland Resiliency Partnership, a consortium of

State agencies, to leverage resources and coordinate resilience

activities.

As part of the 2016 State Hazard Mitigation Plan update, agencies of

the Maryland Resiliency Partnership gave presentations at a series of

six regional meetings across Maryland, hosted by the Maryland

Emergency Management Agency. The Maryland Department of the

Environment, the Maryland Environmental Service, the Department

of Natural Resources, the State Highway Authority, and the Maryland

Historic Trust provided counties with resources and tools to enhance

planning and mitigation activities in local communities.

FEMA also presented the counties with an overview of the newly developed Flood Risk Products, a supplementary resource for communicating flood risk. While not regulatory in nature, such as the FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMS), these products provide additional data and tools to help communities plan for resiliency. As part of coastal mapping updates throughout Region III, many communities are now equipped with these additional tools to comprehensively plan for flood risks.

For more information on Maryland’s web-based tools and resources, visit www.mdfloodmaps.com.

Information on Flood Risk Products can be found at www.fema.gov/risk-map-flood-risk-products.

Flood Risk Products (where available) can be downloaded from the FEMA Map Service Center at www.msc.fema.gov.

By: Leslie Tomic, Field Operations Directorate, FEMA HQ

In 2010, FEMA and EPA signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) that formalizes efforts to explore opportunities to incorporate sustainability and smart growth practices into communities’ hazard mitigation planning and long-term disaster recovery efforts, and to incorporate hazard resilience into smart growth assistance for communities.

FEMA and EPA have implemented the MOA through several projects, including but not limited to: Spirit Lake, North Dakota (2011): FEMA and EPA worked with the tribe to develop a land use plan that directs growth away from known flood risk areas and improves overall quality of life on the reservation. Mad River Valley, Vermont (2012): Through EPA’s Smart Growth Implementation Assistance Program, EPA and FEMA worked with several Vermont state agencies and communities in Vermont’s Mad River Valley to identify smart growth strategies that can help vulnerable communi-ties prepare for and recover from floods. The report and its Flood Resilience Checklist can help any community seeking to become more resilient to future floods.

The updated MOA reflects the continued mutual intent of both parties to coordinate networks of nationwide, regional, and community-based expertise, practices, initiatives, and programs to work with communities to reduce vulnerability to natural hazard events, recover from disasters that occur, and achieve economic, environmental, and public health outcomes as part of redevelopment and recovery efforts. More specifically, the MOA is designed to 1) support coordination in national, regional and field offices of activities between EPA’s sustainable communities, smart growth, environmental, and community technical assistance programs and FEMA’s disaster recovery planning and hazard mitigation programs; 2) provide lessons learned for EPA, FEMA and other federal agencies that can be used to build a stronger federal framework for mitigation planning as well as pre- and post-disaster recovery planning and operations; and 3) provide a collaborative framework for policy work related to both hazard mitigation planning and climate change adaptation to create more resilient communities.

MITIGATION CORNER - BEYOND THE MAP: A PATH TOWARD RESILIENCY

A MULTI-PARTNER APPROACH FOR MARYLAND

UPDATING THE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN FEMA AND THE EPA

REGION III

NATIONAL D ISASTER

RECOVERY FRAMEWORK

STERNGTHENING DISASTER RECOVERY

FOR THE NATION

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By: Jack Schreibman, Office of Management and Budget Community Solutions Team

Upon coming into office, President Obama tasked his team with taking a look at how the Federal government and local communities work together to solve problems. Beginning with guidance in 2009, the Federal government has quietly changed the way we do business in communities, emphasizing a collaborative federal role that is driven by partnership with local officials, and a reliance on data and evidence to guide what works, one city and county at a time. In the Spring, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Community Solutions Team, in collaboration with the Partnership for Public Service, organized the “Delivering Outcomes for Communities” trainings, reaching 315 career Federal employees across 20 agencies. The training was designed to help participants find and replicate federal strategies that are working for communities, connect across agency silos, and network with leaders on the frontlines in communities. The training included workshops on real-life challenges from federal teams across the country—including site visits in Baltimore. The participants especially enjoyed the “Fed Talks”, which highlighted creative initiatives and partnerships between Federal team and communities across the country! The training also featured plenary sessions on using data to inform work in communities, and understand-ing local priorities from the perspective of Mayors and other local officials. A wide-range of administration luminaries including Cecilia Munoz, Megan Smith, Shaun Donovan, Jerry Abramson, Valerie Jarrett and Vice President Biden (in addition to others across the White House) dialogued with training participants, sharing ideas for how to

improve federal engagement and services in communities. Participants pitched senior officials on 29 unique ideas for how the federal government could better put citizens and communities at the center of our work, which will be shared with leaders across the Executive Office of the President (EOP), OMB, Office of Personnel Management and the General Service Administration. Please be on the lookout for the announcement of the next opportunity to attend this training, which will take place October 2016. You can find information regarding the upcoming training on the Community Solutions ‘Community of Practice’ Website. Please also be sure to check out other offerings on the site, including materials from the training, a calendar of events, and other resources to help federal leaders make the greatest impact in communities. We know the challenges our community partners face are indeed complex. They are interwoven and demand a new kind of problem-solving. This Administration’s approach to working with communities can help Federal agencies better deliver on their respective missions and optimize investments across government. Federal partnerships allow agencies to be better coordinated on the ground and to leverage one another’s strengths and resources in carrying out their missions while advancing local goals. To keep the momentum going, please join the Community Solutions listserv which has over 600 members, to connect, with fellow Federal colleagues and share your discoveries and innovations in communities.

DELIVERING OUTCOMES FOR COMMUNITIES TRAINING SERIES

REGION III

NATIONAL D ISASTER

RECOVERY FRAMEWORK

STERNGTHENING DISASTER RECOVERY

FOR THE NATION

Left to right—Vice President Biden spent over an hour visiting with students at the June 25th training. Megan Smith, Senior Advisor to the Presi-dent, CTO; Tara McGuinnes, Senior Advisor to the President; former Philadelphia Mayor Nutter; and Sean Donovan, OMB Director. 38 FEMA staff attended the three offerings, including 7 of the 10 Federal Disaster Recovery Coordinators (FDRCs) and 9 of 10 Community Planning & Capacity Building (CPCB) Regional Coordinators. FEMA attendees gained new relationships, new partner agencies, inspiration and mentoring from top level leaders and new found ideas for enhancing FEMA’s national leadership roles in disaster recovery.

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By: Donte Lucas, DC Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency The District of Columbia, led by the Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, conducted the Road to Recovery Table Top Exercise on June 13, 2016 – the first District exercise solely dedicated to recovery operations. The purpose of the exercise was to educate District agencies and stakeholders on their roles and responsibilities in disaster recovery operations and validate operational concepts and procedures presented in the District Recovery Plan and draft District Recovery Operations Guide (DROG). The exercise brought together more than 100 District, regional, and federal agencies; nongovernmental organizations; and private sector stakeholders, demonstrating the District’s spirit of partnership while reflecting Whole Community collaborative planning best practice as outlined in the National Disaster Recovery Framework.

A contingent of Recovery Subcommittee members formed an exercise planning team (EPT) and began planning for the exercise in late-2015. Following HSEEP doctrine, the EPT convened regular meetings to accomplish critical exercise design tasks, along the way determining that the TTX would serve as the inaugural event to the ‘Road to Recovery Exercise Series’. Planning culminated with the selection of a plausible earthquake scenario and the invitation of an expert facilitator and guest speaker. The EPT then engaged and leveraged the support of the Office of the City Administrator to endorse the exercise and encourage participation of District executives and department/agency heads. The exercise commenced with a plenary session which defined long-term disaster recovery, delineating that from the well-known response and initial recovery operations, and presenting examples of both idyllic and inadequate recovery efforts – both national and international.

Later in the day representatives were dispersed into multiple groups to discuss organization-specific immediate, intermediate, and long-term recovery operations. Break-out sessions spurred detailed discussion that was critical in validating the District’s recovery operational concepts while highlighting additional considerations that had not been captured during the planning processes. The event accomplished each objective and was ultimately viewed as a success for educating recently appointed officials on the District Preparedness System and introducing the enhanced recovery organization, as well as their respective roles and respon-sibilities within each RSF. Next steps include integrating findings from the TTX into the DROG; finalizing the DROG; and then, developing RSF tactical procedures and tools – and conducting additional table top and functional exercises as part of the exercise series.

In June, FEMA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, in coordination with the Mitigation Framework Leadership Group (MitFLG), advanced the national conversation around community disaster resilience by introducing a draft Federal interagency concept for measuring resilience. The Draft Interagency Concept for Community Resilience Indicators and National-Level Progress Measures is the result of a year-long effort. Developed in response to needs identified by the National Academies, a State, Local, and Tribal Leaders Task Force and the White House Insurance Industry Roundtable, these resilience indicators will inform the efforts of governments, individuals, and businesses to enhance their resilience to disasters and the impacts of climate change. The draft concept focuses on actions communities can take to improve their ability to withstand, recover from and adapt to changing weather patterns and the threat of natural hazard events. Types of actions highlighted include the adoption and enforcement of disaster resistant building codes, investment in housing affordability and health care access, economic diversification, green and gray infrastructure protection, and mitigation planning. The document aligns these types of capacity building actions with the Mitigation and Recovery Core Capabilities under the National Preparedness Goal. The concept relies on data collections from Federal programs and surveys including the National Flood Insurance Program, the American Housing Survey, the National Transit Database, the Forest Inventory and Analysis Program, and others. The concept is not a Federal doctrine and it is not intended to prescribe or require the use of measurement by State or local governments. Instead it is an endeavor to promote dialogue among stakeholders about the most relevant measures for different risks, populations and geographies. FEMA is seeking feedback on the strengths and weaknesses of the proposed framework and measures and ideas for alternative or additional measures that could be explored. For more information, visit the FEMA site at https://www.fema.gov/community-resilience-indicators .

Interested stakeholders seeking to provide input can submit comments and feedback to FEMA-CommunityResilience@fema.dhs.gov or you may contact Kathleen Boyer directly at Kathleen.Boyer@fema.dhs.gov.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CONDUCTS ROAD TO RECOVERY TABLE TOP EXERCISE

REGION III

NATIONAL D ISASTER

RECOVERY FRAMEWORK

STERNGTHENING DISASTER RECOVERY

FOR THE NATION

MEASURES OF COMMUNITY DISASTER AND CLIMATE RESILIENCE

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By: Michelle Diamond, Regional CPCB Coordinator, FEMA Region III

In our last publication of this newsletter, I highlighted some of the exciting pre-disaster coordination efforts taking place in Region III, such as the federal CPCB Partner’s Meetings we have hosted, collaboration with our academic and non-governmental colleagues, and coordination with State CPCB-liaisons. Pre-disaster planning allows us to better align and synchronize disaster recovery resources and opportunities. It ensures that we aren’t exchanging business cards in the field and learning about one another’s capabilities at the onset of a disaster.

Now that I find myself serving as CPCB Field Coordinator in the Charleston, WV joint-field office, supporting the State’s long term recovery ef-forts, I approach the challenges ahead in harmony with many of the CPCB stakeholders that I have had the opportunity to coordinate with pre-disaster. As we work to identify recovery opportunities and build partnerships, I am encouraged by my many CPCB Regional counterparts from around the country, who have shared with me their best practices, lessons learned, and genuine support as we lean forward with our efforts here in West Virginia.

In this issue of the Forward Recovery CPCB Featurette, we highlight several pre-disaster planning efforts currently underway, including the State of Maryland’s recently published local recovery planning toolkit, and the development of the Recovery Pre-Disaster Planning Guide for Tribes. We also highlight the ongoing post-disaster CPCB operations that continue to support local recovery in the field, and share resources from the American Planning Association’s Hazard Mitigation and Disaster Recovery Planning Division, among others. The road to recovery is no doubt a long one. As we continue to identify recovery opportunities, we navigate forward together.

UPDATES FROM THE FIELD: MISSOURI FLOOD RECOVERY THROUGH PARTNER COORDINATION

By: Sheila Doll and De’An Bass, CPCB Recovery Support Function, FEMA-DR-4250-MO

Missouri has a long history of flooding – the winter flood was the latest of 19 Presidentially-declared major flood disasters since 2006. Severe storms swept across the state and produced tornadoes, straight-line winds, heavy rainfall and unprecedented flooding from the southwest corner of the state to the St. Louis metro area. FEMA appointed a Federal Disaster Recovery Coordinator (FDRC) and support team, and the State appointed leadership from its Department of Economic Development to serve as the State Disaster Recovery Coordinator (SDRC).

While scoping the long-term recovery mission, National Disaster Recovery Support (NDRS) staff met with dozens of recovery partners to identify issues and develop strategies to support long-term community recovery. In addition to individual and small group meetings, the SDRC and FDRC are hosting a series of statewide partner coordination meetings. At these meetings, representatives from all functional sectors and the whole community engage in cross-cutting discussions of recovery issues and strategies.

More than 60 people from federal and state agencies, regional planning commissions, universities, voluntary organizations, and local communities participated in the first two Missouri Flood Recovery Partner Meetings on May 24, 2016, and June 21, 2016. Participants discussed flood impacts; identified recovery needs, issues and root causes; brainstormed recovery strategies; and suggested additional partners who could support recovery efforts. Recovery partners will discuss actions, timeframes and coordinating partners at the third partner meeting in August 2016.

These cross-discipline partner meetings are a first for some partners to

engage significantly outside their areas of expertise or traditional sphere of influence. Participants have been pleased with the cross-discipline networking and dialogue. They provided feedback through an anonymous survey. Some of the responses to the “most beneficial aspect of the workshop” question include:

Learning how many moving pieces there are in disaster recovery

Having all the recovery SMEs in one room sharing their thoughts.

Group work discussions – specific and useful.

I really appreciate the “expertise needed” handout.

The opportunity to discuss the issues important to us. Participants also requested additional information and opportunities that would help their organizations with disaster recovery. Some specifics include:

A good definition of “What is disaster recovery?”

More understanding of resilience related to recovery.

Continued networking

Better understanding of agency missions and funding.

The iterative process of meetings like this is important – needs to continue.

Recovery partners and state leadership recognize the value of ongoing communication and coordination. This recognition and the value placed on this collaborative engagement will strengthen recovery efforts throughout the state of Missouri for this flood and future disaster recoveries.

The Community Planning and Capacity

Building (CPCB) Recovery Support Function

supports and builds the community planning

resources and recovery capacities of Tribal,

State and local governments needed to

effectively plan for, manage, and implement

disaster recovery activities in large, unique,

or catastrophic incidents.

COMMUNITY PLANNING & CAPACITY BUILDING COORDINATOR’S CORNER

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By: Tom Donnelly, CPCB Regional Coordinator, Region X

AMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE OFFERS FULL-DAY

DISASTER RECOVERY PLANNING COURSE

By: Gavin Smith, PhD., AICP, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

The FEMA-sponsored course, Disaster Recovery Planning, under development at the University of Hawaii’s National Disaster Preparedness Training Center (NDPTC) was delivered this spring at the American Planning Association Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Course instructors included Gavin Smith, Ph.D., AICP, Director of the Department of Homeland Security Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence and Research Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Barry Hokanson, AICP, Chair of the APA Hazard Mitigation and Disaster Recovery Planning Division; and Jim Schwab, FAICP, Director of the Hazards Planning Research Center.

The Disaster Recovery Planning course focuses on the application of recovery concepts, regulations, and best practices through the use of case studies and the review of sample plans. The course is intended to provide participants with the tools needed to develop a pre-disaster local recovery plan.

Class participants at the Phoenix delivery engaged in the following learning objectives and activities:

Examined concepts relating to governance, collaboration and planning

Discussed the importance of pre-disaster recovery planning

Discussed organizations and their roles in disaster recovery

Discussed the relationship between disaster recovery plans and other plans

The Community Planning and Capacity

Building (CPCB) Recovery Support Function

supports and builds the community planning

resources and recovery capacities of Tribal,

State and local governments needed to

effectively plan for, manage, and implement

disaster recovery activities in large, unique,

or catastrophic incidents.

FEMA SUPPORTS PRE-DISASTER PLANNING GUIDANCE TO TRIBES

One of the principles often stated in disaster recovery is that being better prepared before the disaster will enable a more expedient and effective recovery after the disaster. The challenge for many communities is not knowing what actions can be taken prior to disasters that may both reduce the effects of an event and increase resilience. To address this FEMA has prepared the series of Recovery Pre-disaster Planning Guides. Two such guides have been developed, one specifically to address the needs of States and another for local agencies. A third component that has been missing is a guide that specifically addresses the unique needs and characteristics of tribes.

The two documents developed to date present a framework for state and local agencies to address pre-disaster planning, specifically in the development of pre-disaster recovery plans. Using a six-step process, their format focuses on what State and local agencies can do to structure a comprehensive pre-disaster recovery plan, including setting goals and objectives, conducting risk assessment and capacity analysis, identifying capability targets, and writing a policy plan and implementation strategy.

In crafting the approach to writing a similar guide for tribes it was evident early on that many of the principles presented in the State and local

documents may not have direct application to tribal government and emergency management structure. Many tribes, for instance, may not have

the depth in their staffing for experienced emergency management or planning departments, nor the capacity or resources necessary to conduct

research and data collection, and construction of a recovery planning document involving policy analysis and capability targets.

The Recovery Pre-disaster Planning Guide for Tribes (RPPG-T) currently being developed thus takes a different approach in laying out individual actions that can be taken incrementally that, when combined, could form the foundation on having solid set of recovery activities while providing the understanding and knowledge of recovery preparedness, and setting the structure for a resilient community.

The RPPG-T, still in the draft stage, is being developed by FEMA’s CPCB team with direct guidance and input from the tribal community. A tribal workgroup, tasked with providing review and comment as well as content such as case studies and examples for the guide, has been involved with the process since December 2015. This involvement by the tribes as end users of the document in its up-front structure and guidance will hopefully result in a well-designed document that presents recovery and pre-disaster planning principles in a useful and relevant manner that can be applied throughout various sectors of a community.

For more information on the RPPG-T please contact Matt Campbell at matt.campbell@fema.dhs.gov or Milo Booth, national tribal liaison at milo.booth@fema.dhs.gov.

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By: Elizabeth Webster, Chas Eby, and Ian Alexander, Maryland Emergency Management Agency

The Maryland Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) has recently published a local recovery planning toolkit to support locally-managed

short-term and intermediate recovery planning, as well as materials to assist with the transition to long-term recovery, managed by a long term

recovery committee (LTRC). These materials were created following the development of the State of Maryland’s Disaster Recovery Operations

Plan in 2014 and a series of technical assistance meetings and guidance provided by MEMA to the Baltimore Urban Areas Security Initiative and the

upper eastern shore region of Maryland as both groups worked to develop local and regional recovery plans.

The local recovery planning toolkit includes information and guidance to support local planning efforts including resources to establish buy-in for

the process, and providing materials to support the development of a plan, including working with external recovery partners. The materials

include resources to support:

Reaching out to local elected officials to receive buy-in and support for local recovery planning;

Developing a local recovery plan, including a local long-term recovery plan outline and template; and,

Meeting with local recovery support function (RSF) partners to develop RSF Annexes to the local recovery plan which are facilitated by example RSF questions and considerations and RSF job aids.

The toolkit also includes guidance on transitioning management of the recovery effort to a LTRC, and is intended to provide some materials to help local jurisdictions establish a local LTRC to manage the casework and ongoing recovery efforts that continue throughout the long-term recovery process, which can last several years. LTRC guidance includes documents to support:

Establishing a Long Term Recovery Committee, which includes example by-laws and plans guidance for starting a LTRC; and,

Understanding how other jurisdictions have managed long-term recovery through reviewing case studies and materials developed by other LTRCs.

Case studies include Boulder, CO; Joplin, MO; Lee County, FL; and Somerset County, MD.

It is our hope that local agencies can use these materials to both create pre-disaster recovery plans and also establish specific recovery operations

following a significant disaster.

For more information about the toolkit, please contact Chas Eby at chas.eby@maryland.gov.

MARYLAND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY PUBLISHES RECOVERY TOOLKIT TO ASSIST

LOCAL JURISDICTIONS’ PLANNING EFFORTS

The Community Planning and Capacity

Building (CPCB) Recovery Support Function

supports and builds the community planning

resources and recovery capacities of Tribal,

State and local governments needed to

effectively plan for, manage, and implement

disaster recovery activities in large, unique,

or catastrophic incidents.

‘CONTINUED—AMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE OFFERS

FULL-DAY DISASTER RECOVERY PLANNING COURSE

Discussed recovery policies that should be included in plans

Participated in a plan quality review activity to understand key elements of recovery plans that should inform the development of their own jurisdiction’s plan.

While the Disaster Recovery Planning course is still under development at NDPTC, more information, including future course delivery schedules, can be found at https://ndptc.hawaii.edu/.

For more information on the American Planning Association’s Hazard Mitigation and Disaster Recovery Planning Division see https://www.planning.org/divisions/hazardmitigation/

For more information on the American Planning Association’s Natural Hazards Planning Research Center including, the text Planning for Post-

Disaster Recovery: Next Generation, see https://planning.org/nationalcenters/hazards/