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Planning for Disaster Mitigation‹How Much Can We Control

Presenter(s): Margaret Lawless, Mitigation Planning and Delivery Division, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Convener: Michael Scott Rudden, The Saratoga Associates

Is your campus disaster plan focused on response‹or will your planning enable you to reduce damages in the event of a physical disaster on your campus? Most attention is usually focused on response as opposed to minimizing disaster in the first place. This session will focus on concrete examples of how disasters have struck colleges and universities, and where some damage could have been mitigated ahead of time with wise use of resources and special consideration when facilities are designed. There will be discussion on FEMA¹s new planning requirements for disaster assistance. The final report, "Building a Disaster Resistant University," authored by six universities that participated in FEMA¹s Disaster Resistant University project, will be distributed.

This knowledge resource from SCUP is a concurrent session presented at the Society's thirty-seventh annual, international conference and Expo, SCUP–37, in San Diego, CA (USA), in July of 2002.

Audiocassettes of this and other SCUP–37 sessions are available for purchase here.

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