It is generally accepted that pre-disaster mitigation works and saves $4 in damages prevented for every $1 invested in mitigation.
There is a CRS Report Pre-Disaster Mitigation Programs: Overview and Issues that was published in 2009. I'm still plowing through it, but here are a few items:
The NEMA Mid-year Conference is happening right now. Perhaps there is an energetic state director who will promote mitigation to his or her congressional delegation when they are in D.C.
Steven Weinstein shared the link above
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There is a CRS Report Pre-Disaster Mitigation Programs: Overview and Issues that was published in 2009. I'm still plowing through it, but here are a few items:
- FFY2010 funding was $100M with 25% of the funds having congressional directed projects ( guess those are earmarks).
- Land use patterns would perhaps lend better results when mitigation is applied than the individual "Structural" fixes that typically get funded (my opinion)
- It was noted that the Reagan presidential years had an absence of major disasters that drive policy.
- In 1998 James Lee Witt was able to get $25M for Project Impact. Imagine what could have been done if the funding levels had been what they became later in the hundreds of millions.
The NEMA Mid-year Conference is happening right now. Perhaps there is an energetic state director who will promote mitigation to his or her congressional delegation when they are in D.C.
Steven Weinstein shared the link above
