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Title: Foster and sustain the environmental and economic well being of the coast by linking people, information, and technology.


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Center Mission
Foster and sustain the environmental and economic
well being of the coast by linking people,
information, and technology.
Theme Areas
  • Coastal Hazards
  • Coastal Habitat
  • Coastal Information Access and Use
  • Capacity Building

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Coastal Hazards - What are the Issues?
  • Coastal hazards can be defined as episodic or
    chronic destructive natural system events that
    affect coastal areas. These include
  • Meteorological hurricanes, tropical cyclones,
    northeasters, and coastal and riverine flooding
  • Geological earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides,
    and chronic erosion
  • Growing concern over continuing worldwide rise in
    disaster loss totals
  • Estimated cost is 10 to 50 billion annually
    in U.S.
  • Global climate change or natural cyclical
    trends
  • Improvements in disaster monitoring and loss
    reporting
  • Increased human exposure in hazardous locations

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Coastal Hazards
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Coastal Hazard Mitigation
  • Multi-disciplinary efforts focusing on community
    risks and vulnerabilities and the true costs of
    hazards
  • Hazard Reduction
  • Altering the coastal environment (erosion
    control, beach nourishment)
  • Strengthening the built environment
    (windproofing, elevating structures)
  • Hazard Avoidance
  • Managing development in high hazard areas (land
    use planning, economic incentives,
  • education)
  • Prohibiting development in high hazard areas
    (zoning)

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Vulnerability Assessment Methodology
  • Hazard Identification
  • Hazard Analysis
  • Critical Facilities Analysis
  • Societal Analysis
  • Economic Analysis
  • Environmental Analysis
  • Mitigation Opportunities Analysis

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Hazard Identification
What hazards are you concerned about? How would
you prioritize them?
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Hazard Identification
Step 1a Identify hazards.
Step 1b Apply relative priority scoring system.
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Hazard Identification
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Hazard Analysis
Where are your risk consideration areas? How
would you prioritize these risk areas?
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Hazard Analysis
Step 2a Map risk consideration areas for hazards.
Step 2b Prioritize risk consideration areas
within each hazard, where possible.
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Storm Surge
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Critical Facilities Analysis
What are your critical facilities and where are
they located? How vulnerable are they to
physical and operational impacts from hazards?
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Critical Facilities Analysis
Step 3a Identify critical facilities categories.
Step 3b Complete a critical facilities inventory.
Step 3c Conduct vulnerability analysis on
critical facilities.
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Critical Facilities Analysis
Types of Critical Facilities in Inventory
  • Shelters
  • Schools
  • Medical
  • Fire/EMS
  • Police
  • Utilities
  • Communications
  • Transportation
  • Government Facilities
  • Miscellaneous

Information to Collect in the Inventory
  • Facility Name
  • Address
  • Owner/Operator
  • Contact
  • Phone
  • Alternate Contact
  • Alternate Phone
  • x and y Coordinate

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Critical Facilities
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Critical Facilities Analysis
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Societal Analysis
Where are your high-need neighborhoods? How
vulnerable are they to hazard impacts?
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Societal Analysis
Step 4a Identify societal need indicators and
collect relevant data.
Step 4b Locate high-need areas.
Step 4c Identify high-need areas that intersect
with high risk locations
Step 4d Conduct general inventory of
high-need/high risk locations.
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Societal Analysis
High Need Areas on Surge
High Need Areas
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Economic Analysis
What are your primary economic sectors and how
vulnerable are they to hazards? Where are your
largest employers and how vulnerable are they to
hazard impacts?
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Economic Analysis
Step 5a Identify primary economic sectors and
locate clusters or economic centers.
Step 5b Identify intersection of economic centers
and high risk locations.
Step 5c Conduct general inventory of high risk
economic centers.
Step 5d Identify large employers.
Step 5e Conduct vulnerability assessment of large
employers (similar to critical facilities.)
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Environmental Analysis
Where are your hazardous materials located
and how vulnerable are they to natural
hazards? How vulnerable are critical natural
resources to secondary hazard impacts?
Input
Hazardous Materials Toxic Release Sites Oil
Facilities Ports Marinas Discharge Sites
Environmental Analysis
Geographically defined areas of high risk coupled
with potential of secondary environmental
impacts. Can be used to target mitigation
projects that will protect sensitive natural
resources.
Output
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Environmental Analysis
Step 6a Identify secondary hazard risk
consideration sites.
Step 6b Identify intersections of secondary risk
sites with high natural hazard risk areas and
environmentally sensitive areas to identify
priority locations.
Step 6c Conduct vulnerability assessments of
priority secondary risk sites (similar to
critical facilities.)
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Technological Hazards
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Mitigation Opportunities Analysis
Where are your best opportunities for
mitigation policy changes to have significant
impacts on future hazard vulnerability?
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Mitigation Opportunities Analysis
Step 7a Identify areas of undeveloped land and
the intersection with high risk areas.
Step 7b Inventory land for existing policies
(zoning, floodplain regulations) to
determine adequacy of existing policies to
prevent unwise development.
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Assessment Matrix
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