Response to DQ

Respond to at least one of your colleagues’ postings in one or more of the following ways:

• Ask a probing question.
• Share an insight from having read your colleague’s posting.
• Offer and support an opinion.
• Validate an idea with your own experience.
• Make a suggestion.
• Expand on your colleague’s posting.

    Mitigation according to FEMA is an effort to reduce loss of life and property by lessening the impact of disasters. This means that taking action before a disaster happens, mitigation can be effective in reducing financial as well as human consequences of not being prepared. This includes analyzing risk, reducing risk, and insuring against risk. This is composed around understanding local risks, addressing the hard choices, and investing in long-term community well-being. (“What is Mitigation? | FEMA.gov,” 2016).

    Two strategies emergency management professionals might use to avoid potential negative impacts of mitigation efforts is defining clear goals of the plan. This would include the concerns of the community as well as examining the needs within the community for accommodating change such as increased population and development. This would also include mandates from governmental legislation, rules and guidelines and from judicial interpretation of statutes and regulations; and previously adopted government policies which may be contained in current ordinances and plans. These strategies involve all levels of cooperation from the community levels to governmental support areas with laws and regulations. 

    A second mitigation effort would be that of risk assessment. This would be examining and placing goals around such areas as flood prone areas. The implication of pre disaster planning as well as access to insurance for community protection. Such similar would be that of FEMA’s flood insurance in flood prone areas. This is to give financial relief to those effected. 

References

What is Mitigation? | FEMA.gov. (201). Retrieved from https://www.fema.gov/what-mitigation