FLOOD03743

• County: Statewide
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: 25th Annual Celebration Hazards Research and Applications Workshop
• Date: 7/9/2000
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Educational/Technical/Reference Information

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Ann-Margaret Esnard
Assistant Professor .
Department of City and Regional Planning
219 West Sibley Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14850

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Email: [e-mail]
http://www.crp.comell.edulfaculty/esnard.htm

Capacity-building and coalition-building toward sustainable hazard mitigation
planning in rural communities

Related outreach activities: (i) Member of Town of Dryden (Tompkins County, New
York) Project Impact Steering Committee; (ii) collaboration with the Tompkins County
Chapter of the American Red Cross on projects related to hazards mapping and
community disaster education; and (iii) collaboration with the New York State
Emergency Management Office's (SEMO's) Hazard Awareness and Risk Reduction
Program Hazard Assessment and Mapping on hazard assessment and mapping for
Cattaraugas, Cortland, Erie, Genesee, Jefferson, Monroe, and Oswego counties.

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Research related to appropriate hazard assessment methodologies for "resource-
constrained" communities:
The research is predicated on concerns that the contribution of local rural
communities to overall sustainable hazard mitigation planning efforts is largely ignored
in ongoing hazard assessment research efforts. This is particularly evident in current data
collection, modeling and assessment activities that have national, regional and urban foci.
Second, hazard assessments are not framed at scales of analysis that reflect a holistic
integrative watershed approach to sustainable hazard mitigation planning, This approach
should entail multiple hazards, multiple scales of representation and viewing, and multi-
faceted problem solving (viz, mitigation, recovery, response, land use planning,
watershed management, environmental protection, natural resource management,
economic development, community empowerment, outreach and education),

Building on FEMA 's Project Impact "partnership" concept:
This research examines (i) the extent to which Project Impact partners and
watershed coalitions share mutually beneficial interests and (ii) the extent to which
Project Impact helps foster a coordinated, multifaceted, multi-hazard and multi-
disciplinary approach to disaster resilience and local sustainability. The research focuses
on New York State's current FEMA-designated Project Impact communities which
represent a wide range of community traits (e,g, socio-economic conditions, types of
hazards, and institutional factors) from which to draw meaningful recommendations and
transferability to communities nationwide.

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