7 - Hazard Mitigation and Resiliency Planning

Question 1

________________ is the area around a home or other structure that has been modified to reduce fire hazards. In this area, natural and manmade fuels are treated, cleared, or reduced to slow the spread of wildfire.

Answer 1

Wildland fire defensible space

Question 2

Extensive Disaster Risk

Answer 2

• Risk of low-severity, high-frequency hazardous events and disasters.
• Usually high where communities are exposed to recurring localized floods, landslides, storms or drought
• Often exacerbated by poverty, urbanization and environmental degradation

Question 3

________is the disaster risk that remains in unmanaged form, even when effective disaster risk reduction measures are in place, and for which emergency response and recovery capacities must be maintained.

Answer 3

Residual Risk

Question 4

____________ is he process of formally or informally shifting the financial consequences of particular risks from one party to another, whereby a household, community, enterprise or State authority will obtain resources from the other party after a disaster occurs,** in exchange for ongoing or compensatory social or financial benefits** provided to that other party.

Answer 4

Risk Transfer

Question 5

Structural Measures vs Non-structural Measures

Answer 5

• Structural measures are any physical construction to reduce or avoid possible impacts of hazards, or the application of engineering techniques or technology to achieve hazard resistance and resilience in structures or systems.
• Non-structural measures are measures not involving physical construction, usually in the form of policies and laws, public awareness raising, training and education.

Question 6

Stafford Disaster Relief Act defines an Emergency as “any occasion or instance for which, in the determination of the __________, ________ assistance is needed to supplement State and local efforts and capabilities to save lives and protect property and public health and safety, or lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in any part of the United States.”

Answer 6

President; Federal

Question 7

______________ means damage of any origin sustained by a structure whereby the cost of restoring the structure to its before-damage condition would equal or exceed 50 percent of the market value or replacement cost of the structure before the damage occurred.

Answer 7

Substantial Damage

Question 8

Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act

Answer 8

Provided authority to the federal government (FEMA) to respond to a disaster

Question 9

The Stafford Act was amended in the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000, which requires local governments to _______________.

Answer 9

Prepare and adopt hazard mitigation plans.

Question 10

Planners are not responsible for hazard identification and risk assessment.

True or False

Answer 10

False.

Question 11

Hazard Mitigation Plans

Answer 11

Required to receive certain types of FEMA assistance.
Made mandatory by The Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000

Question 12

National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)

Answer 12

• Provides flood insurance to property owners, renters and businesses
• Managed by FEMA
• Enacted in 1994 through the National Flood Insurance Act