Assessing Hazards Risks and Vulnerabilities for Mitigation Strategies Map Your Hazards Combining Natural Hazards with Societal Issues What is a stakeholder For natural hazards or disasters a stakeholder is ID: 636201
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Introduction to Stakeholders:Assessing Hazards, Risks, and Vulnerabilities for Mitigation Strategies
Map Your Hazards!
Combining Natural Hazards with Societal IssuesSlide2
What is a stakeholder?For natural hazards or disasters, a stakeholder is:Any person, organization or group who can become affected by a particular hazard or disaster event
Who are your local stakeholders?Slide3
Examples of local stakeholders
Emergency responders
Emergency managers
City planners
Insurance companies
Religious groups
BusinessesDomestic shelters School districtsPreschoolsIndividual households
College studentsRetirement communitiesNeighborhood groupsFarmers and ranchersUtility companiesConstruction companiesTransportation servicesSocial service agency (Red Cross, resource allocation)
Why is it important to identify your stakeholders?Slide4
Importance of identifying your stakeholdersInformation and types of purposed mitigation should be targeted to the specific stakeholder addressed
Enhances receptivity and ability to take actions toward becoming more resilient
For mitigation strategies,
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hy is it important for stakeholders to understand hazards,
risks,
and vulnerabilities?Slide5
Importance of demonstrating hazards, risks, and vulnerabilities for mitigation strategies
Often, hazards are exacerbated by human activity…
Urban concentration and sprawl
Weathering or instability of infrastructures (e.g. corrosion of metals, earthquake resilient buildings)
Land use (e.g. fertilizers, location of buildings)
Quality of water supply
What other examples
of human activity and hazard interactions
can you think of?Slide6
Compare information and mitigation strategies that would be important for . . .Elementary School Students
Utility companies
Elementary school students
Substation in CanadaSlide7
Each group gets a stakeholderFrame results and suggested mitigation for your assigned stakeholderKeep in mind that these
stakeholders may be present for your presentations!