S7E6 - Pre-Disaster Mitigation Needs to Quickly Ramp Up in the US. Will it?
with ๐๏ธ Nick Shufro - Deputy Assistant Administrator, Federal Insurance & Mitigation Administration, Resilience, FEMAย
ย ๐ง The Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration (FIMA) manages the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and a range of programs designed to mitigate against future losses from all hazards, including floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, and other natural disasters.
What we covered:
๐ง How only 9 million insurance policies have been set in the US to protect people from flood risks, and how it's been a slow uptake to achieve that number.ย
๐ด How Ben Franklin's advice is still very actual in today's contextย
๐ฑ How the US federal administration set rules to enforce pre-disaster mitigation, even after a disaster has happened.ย
๐บ๐ธ How funding availability drastically evolved under the current US administration.ย
๐ How Nick's team comes in and meets people on the worst day of their lifeย
๐ How it's all about reducing disaster suffering, be it with pre-disaster mitigation or post-disaster remediation
๐ฅ โฆ and of course, we concluded with the ๐ง๐๐ฅ๐๐ ๐๐๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐ช๐๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐จ ๐ฅ ย ย
โก๏ธ Send your warm regards to Nick on LinkedIn;ย
โก๏ธ Visit FIMA's Website
โก๏ธ A big THANK YOU to Sciens Water for enabling this episode!
โก๏ธ Check out the full story (and an infographic) on how Pre-Disaster Mitigation shall be further developed on the website!
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