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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />-- <br /> <br />Millennium Room <br /> <br />Flagstaff Room <br /> <br />Trail Ridge Room <br /> <br />Mondav. Julv 10. continued <br /> <br />Although it has been around a long time as a concept, disaster mitigation is still seldom fully <br />embraced as a practice. Clearly, one of the best ways to build a culture of prevention is to <br />mobilize grassroots public and private support. This panel consists of mitigation champions <br />from volunteer organizations, local government, academia, and the private sector who are <br />working to institutionalize mitigation in their communities. They will share their key <br />strategies and success stories. <br /> <br />3. DISASTERS AND CONGRESS <br />Moderator: Larry Larson, Association of State Floodplain Managers <br />Discussants: <br />David Applegate, American Geological Institute <br />Tom Tobin, Tobin & Associates <br />Michael Gaus, State University of New York, Buffalo <br />Recorder: Tom Birkland, State University of New York, Albany <br /> <br />Over the past few years, new initiatives have been launched on Capitol Hill to build hazard <br />and hazard mitigation awareness. This session will describe these initiatives and explore <br />additional ways to develop a wider understanding within Congress that reducing the risks <br />and costs of natural disasters is a public value. <br /> <br />4. INSURANCE INDUSTRY DISASTER MITIGATION INlTIATIVES <br />Moderator: Frank Nutter, Reinsurance Association of America <br />Discussants: <br />Diana McClure, Institute for Business & Home Safety (PPOO-II) <br />Paul Kovacs, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction <br />Paul Freeman, International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (PPOO-5) <br />Teri Spalding, State Farm Insurance Companies <br />Recorder: John Porco, Michael Baker Jr., Inc. <br /> <br />This session will focus on the reasons for both insurance and reinsurance industry interest in <br />mitigation, as well as highlight research and application of that knowledge to reduce losses <br />from natural disasters. The highlighted strategies should be transferable to disaster <br />resistant/resilient community and state initiatives. <br /> <br />5. LAND-USE PLANNING AND HAZARD RESISTANT COMMUNITIES <br />Moderator: Bob Paterson, University of Texas, Austin <br />Discussauts: <br />Gil Jamieson, FEMA Mitigation Directorate <br />Andre LeDuc, University of Oregon (PPOO-8) <br />Michele Steinberg, Instill1le for Business & Home Safety (PPOO-20) <br />Steve French, Georgia Tech <br />Recorder: Bob Freitag, University of Washington <br /> <br />Land-use planning has been touted as one of the major tools available to promote long-tenn <br />hazards loss reduction as well as other aspects of a sustainable community. This session will <br />focus on examples in which land-use planning and related techniques have been used to <br />achieve these goals. <br /> <br />5 <br />