38th Annual natural hazards research and application workshop

Since 1975, the Natural Hazards Center has hosted the Annual natural hazards research and application workshop for 400 federal, state, and local emergency officials; representatives of nonprofit and humanitarian organizations; hazards researchers; disaster consultants; and others dedicated to alleviating the impacts of disasters.

Sessions:

• Predictable, preventable: Enabling communities to reduce disaster risk assessing state and local hazard mitigation plans in the U.S
• Disaster and development
• Climate change and severe weather: The public health response nonprofits in natural hazards preparedness and response
• Resilience revisited
• Human and civil rights in disasters & sea level rise in the U.S.
• Community planning and adaptation to climate change
• Disasters, deadlines, and resilience
• Resilience indicators: Ready or not
• Integrating climate adaptation into federal disaster policy
• How public health informs and inspires disaster science, policy, and practice
• Engaging users: SAFRR tsunami scenario creation and results
• Risk communication and decision making
• Public alert and warning messages for mobile devices