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]
- Building a Fire Adapted Community 2014
- 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.
- Flash Flooding and Erosion Follow Wildfire 2014
- Firewise Participation Protects Communities 2014
- Fire Resistant Construction and Fuel Reduction Work 2014
- GalvNews Best Practice [pdf]
- Hard Work Builds a Firewise Community 2014
- 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]
- The Value and Impact of Building Codes- International Code Council (ICC) [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
- Mitigation Guide: Beyond the Basics
Beyond the Basics website was developed as part of a multi-year research study funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Coastal Hazards Center of Excellence and led by the Center for Sustainable Community Design within the Institute for the Environment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
