Best Practices
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Featured Best Practices:
- Alaska Hazard Mitigation Best Practices: Disaster Mitigation Working in Alaska
- Acquisitions Buyouts 2011 [2,410KB pdf]
- Elevated Home [pdf]
- Empowering Communities to be Safe Enough to Stay: Join NEN Director Daniel Homsey and Laurence Kornfield on a visual tour of the Safe Enough to Stay Exhibit at San Francisco planning and Urban Research Association.
- GalvNews Best Practice [pdf]
- Home Acquisition [pdf]
- House Built Above Building Code Stood Strong Against Storm [pdf]
- Hurricane Ike, 2008: 1791-DR-TX: Best Practices:
- Building Codes Helped Bolivar Peninsula Homes Survive [pdf]
- Computerized Warning Sys Replaces Word of Mouth[pdf]
- FEMA HMGP Funding Provides Security in Port Neches [pdf]
- Galveston Neighborhood Gets High Marks in Hurricane Test [pdf]
- Hazard mitigation Saves Historic Galveston home [pdf]
- Homes Built on Slab Foundations Can Be Elevated Too [pdf]
- Homes Built With Love – and Lots of Extra Nails [pdf]
- House Built Above Building Codes Stood Strong Against Storm (English) [pdf]
- House Built Above Building Codes Stood Strong Against Storm (Spanish) [pdf]
- House Built Above Building Codes Stood Strong Against Storm (Vietnamese) [pdf]
- KPRC Weatherman Builds Above Ike Storm Surge (Vietnamese) [pdf]
- Mayor steers Tiki Island turnabout [pdf]
- National Flood Insurance Program Available to Renters[pdf]
- Read All About It: Galveston Newspaper Never Misses a Beat [pdf]
- Shutters Provide Peace of Mind During Storm: [pdf]
- Storm Proves Surfside Beach Buyouts Were Good Investments [pdf]
- Quick Reopening of Supermarket Served Galveston Citizens[pdf]
- Kemah Strizek Best Practice [pdf]
- KPRC Best Practice [pdf]
- Planning Paves the Way to Community Resilience (Mystic Mitigation) [pdf]
- Protecting Aquatic Life in Pennsylvania [pdf]
- Safe Room – NSSA:This short video clip shows the devastation of an Alabama tornado and the surviving family. Gary Cosby, Jr. The Decatur Daily (14MB .mov)
- Safe Room: 2011, 1971-DR-AL: Best Practices: Seeing is Believing [pdf]
- Safe Room: 2011, 1971-DR-AL:Best Practices: Designed with People with Disabilities in Mind [pdf]
- St Patrick Best Practice [pdf]
- Students Contribute to Mitigation Planning [pdf]
- Wildfires 2007:These strategies include defensible space, vegetation management, fuel modification programs, and the use of fire-resistant building materials. [pdf]
Web Links:
- FEMA: http://www.fema.gov/plan/prevent/bestpractices/index.shtm
- FEMA: PAS 560, Hazard Mitigation: Integrating Best Practices into Planning http://www.fema.gov/library/viewRecord.do?id=4267&fromSearch=fromsearch




