Final Examination
Keith Summerall
FES 3833
Professor Carlino
July 9th, 2015
Abstract
Throughout this course we completed 5 web projects that all correlate into a hazard mitigation plan. I researched and found a mitigation plan for Cochise county in Arizona. The area at hand is vulnerable to droughts so the plan is aimed for towards being prepared for a potential drought rather than other uncommon disasters. The plan incorporates 3 of the 5 subjects we covered in web projects. They are SWOT analysis, emergency operations center, and types of disasters and prioritizing them.
Final Examination
All of our weekly web projects taken as a whole impact the field of hazard mitigation but our week 1 project which was
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The Cochise county hazard mitigation plan's purpose is to identify natural hazards and certain human caused hazards that impact the various jurisdictions located within Cochise county, and to assess the vulnerability and risk posed by those hazards to community wide human and structural assets, develop strategies for mitigation of those identified hazards, present future maintenance procedures for the plan, and document the planning process (“Cochise County”, 2013).The plan is comprised of the following sections: Planning process which summarizes the planning process used to update the plan, and describes the assembly of the planning team, and summarizes public involvement efforts. Community description which provides an overall description of the the jurisdictions and the county as a whole, and a risk assessment that summarizes the profiling of natural and human caused hazards that impact the county and the vulnerability assessment for each hazard that considers exposure estimations and development trend analysis. Mitigation strategy which presents a capability assessment for each participating jurisdiction and summarizes the plan mitigation goals, objectives, actions, and strategy for implementation(“Cochise County”, 2012). Plan maintenance strategy outlines the proposed strategy for evaluating and monitoring the …show more content…
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