Inclusion of Disaster Resiliency in City/Neighborhood Comprehensive Plans

Abstract

Once hazard mitigation is included in a citys comprehensive plan, the region and its citizens are more prepared to respond to a potential natural disaster. The purpose of this thesis was to illuminate factors that encourage cities to include hazard mitigation within their comprehensive plans. The research used geographic information system (GIS) and census data to locate urban, suburban, and rural areas at risk of flooding and analyzed these regions comprehensive plans. The research results suggest that previous major flooding events often lead to the inclusion of flood-related hazard mitigation into cities comprehensive plans. This finding suggests that policy alone does not influence hazard mitigation; other methods should be practiced to ensure hazard mitigation is included within neighborhood/city comprehensive plans.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2017
Accession Number
AD1046836

Entities

People

  • Douglas J. Gavin

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Climate Change
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Disaster Management
  • Disasters
  • Emergency Response
  • Environment
  • Environmental Protection
  • Flood Control
  • Flood Hazards
  • Floods
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Geography
  • Groundwater
  • Information Systems
  • Sea Level Rise
  • Storm Surges
  • Urban Areas

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science
  • Medicine

Readers

  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
  • Theoretical Analysis.