NHMA endeavors to share with its membership a wide range of articles related to hazard mitigation. NHMA does not necessarily endorse the views of the authors and we welcome discussion and commentary on the contents of these articles.
Best Practices Web Links can be found HERE
Natural Hazard Mitigation: Assistance, Education, Planning, and Resources
- Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASDPM)
- America’s Climate Choices, National Research Council
- Blue Print for Safety
- Building Code Resources Kit (Institute for Business & Home Safety)
- CDC’s Natural Disaster page
- DisasterAssistance.gov
- Disaster Safety from the Institute for Business & Home Safety
- Earth Observatory – Natural Hazards
- Federal Emergency Management Agency
- Federal Alliance for Safe Homes
- FEMA: Mitigation Ideas [pdf]
- FEMA: Mitigation Planning Toolkit [pdf]
- Firewise Toolkit
- Florida Disaster: Substantiating Mitigation in Florida: includes loss avoidance studies
- HAZnet.org
- HousingPolicy.org Toolbox and Natural Disaster Discussion Group
- Institute for Business and Home Safety
- Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI)
- ISO Mitigation Online
- MitigationMovement.org
- NatHaz Modeling Laboratory
- National Council for Science and Environment
- National Institute of Building Sciences
- National Mitigation Alliance
- National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program – Links for Kids (K-12) [pdf]
- Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
- Natural Hazards Gateway
- Natural Hazards Support System
- Natural Hazards.org
- Nature Conservancy Coastal Resilience
- NOAA Digital Coast
- Ready.gov
- Resilience for Critical Infrastructure
- Risk Literacy: Preparing for Storms – Louisiana
- Risk Literacy: Preparing for Storms: Facilitator’s Guide
- State Laws and Natural Hazards
- Tulsa Partners
- USEHAZUS
- Weather Ready Nation
- Florida Department of Economic Opportunity: Best Practices Guidebook
- Levy Profile Draft [pdf]
- Miami-Dade Profile Final [pdf]
- Palm Beach County Profile [pdf]
- Post-Disaster Redevelopment Program
- Protecting Florida’s Communities: Land Use Planning Strategies and Best Development Practices.
- Restore Your Economy
- UNC: FEMA-funded CRS study: An Evaluation of Floodplain Management Planning Under the Community Rating System more projects from the University of North Carolina
- American Planning Association
- American Society for Public Administration
- Association of Contingency Planners
- Association of State Floodplain Managers
- International Association of Emergency Managers
- Center for Hazard Assessment, Response and Technology
- Center for Natural Hazards Research
- Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
- Global Catastrophic Risk Institute (GCRI)
- Institute for Hazard Mitigation Planning and Research
- LSU AgCenter’s Louisiana House
- National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program
- Natural Hazards Center
- Natural Hazards Center at Penn State
- OU Center for Risk & Crisis Management
- Texas Tech University Wind Science & Engineering Research Center
- UNC Hazards Center
- Mayors Climate Protection Center
- Climate Ready Water Tool
- Climate Solutions University: Community Adaptation Plans and Case Studies
Blogs with Relevance to Natural Hazard Mitigation:
- CCAP.org: What does Climate Resilience Look Like?
- Disaster Academia
- Disaster Preparedness Blog
- Disaster Safety Blog
- Disaster Zone
- Disaster Zone: Emergency Management in the Blogosphere
- Hurricane Risk Mitigation Blog
- Jeff Braun’s Emergency Management Blog
- Living on the Real World
- Steve Cohen: Earth Institute at Columbia
- StormSmart Coasts Blog
E-Journals with Relevance to Natural Hazard Mitigation:
- Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management
- Disaster Recovery Journal
- Natural Hazards Informer
- Natural Hazards Observer
- The Electronic Journal of Disaster Science
