Congressional Hazards Caucus Alliance briefed on the ‘benefits of mitigation’

The US Congressional Hazards Caucus Alliance has received a briefing on how to assess the benefits of disaster mitigation activities.

Assessing the costs and benefits of mitigation has always posed problems because information is often anecdotal. As part of a longer term project to gain more information on this area, the Congressional Hazards Caucus Alliance session heard from various speakers on the subject.

The speakers and their presentations were:

David Maurstad, Acting Mitigation Division Director and Federal Insurance Administrator for Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Introduction of the Multihazard Mitigation Council report

L. Thomas Tobin, MMC Project Manager, Tobin and Associates, Mill Valley, California
Overview of the Multihazard Mitigation Council report "Natural Hazard Mitigation Saves: An Independent Study to Assess the Future Savings from Mitigation Activities"

Adam Z. Rose, Economist, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
Cost-effective mitigation: How to weigh the benefits

William Leith, Advanced National Seismic System Coordinator, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston Virginia
The Advanced National Seismic System: Reducing the Devastating Effects of Earthquakes

Adam Z. Rose, Economist, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
Overview of the SeismicMonitoring report "Improved Seismic Monitoring, Improved Decision-Making: Assessing the Value of Reduced Uncertainty"

Copies of the presentations can be downloaded from here.

•Date: 10th Feb 2006• Region: US • Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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