Involving natural resource experts in the hazard mitigation planning and project implementation process can help fill information gaps and aid in the identification and prioritization of viable nature-based mitigation actions to address identified risks. State agencies and conservation organizations have invested significantly in developing wetland assessment and prioritization tools that could be leveraged to aid in hazard mitigation planning. These tools can help to determine the location and priority of governmental expenditures in the restoration and protection of aquatic resources and nonprofit conservation efforts. This project, made possible through a Wetland Program Development Grant funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), aimed to identify opportunities for integrating these tools into hazard mitigation planning to promote the adoption of nature-based strategies.
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Table of Contents
- Applying Wetlands Tools for Disaster Management (1) 1
- Workshop Summary (updated 4-16) (002) 2
- Overview 4
- Introduction & Workshop Objectives 4
- Background 4
- Attendance 8
- Format 8
- Takeaways from the Workshop 9
- Site-Scale 9
- Site Scale Challenges 9
- Site-Scale “Action Item” Priorities 12
- Watershed-Scale 15
- Watershed-Scale Challenges 15
- Watershed-Scale “Action Item” Priorities 16
- Building Community Capacity for Nature-Based Projects 17
- Using Regional Capacity to Bolster Local Capacity for FEMA Mitigation Planning 17
- Regional prioritization for local implementation 17
- Pinpointing hubs of potential capacity for regional hazard mitigation prioritization and planning 18
- Leveraging regional capacity building at the local scale 19
- Other Recommendations for Building Capacity at the Local Scale 19
- Educating local governments to encourage buy-in for NBS 19
- Identifying a community’s natural assets 20
- Capitalizing on bridging organizations 21
- Advisory Committees 21
- Post-Workshop Engagements 23
- Follow-up Report 23
- Group Engagement 23
- Appendix 1: Prioritization Tools and Relevant Literature 24
- 14 Wetland Assessment and Prioritization Tools 24
- Appendix 2: Relevant Literature (Annotated Bibliography) 35
