Emergency Preparedness Plans
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April 27, 2023
The United States Naval Academy (USNA) and Naval Support Activity Annapolis (NSSA) released the US Naval Academy’s Military Installation Resilience Plan on April 27, 2023. USNA, located in Annapolis, Maryland, jointly developed the installation Resiliency Plan with NSSA to provide an adaptation strategy for infrastructure resilience to flood events. The NSSA provides operating support services to the USNA. This plan includes an integrated adaptation strategy, a project portfolio, and an execution strategy on a year-to-year basis that focuses on mitigating the impacts of rising sea levels and surges.
Related Organizations: United States Naval Academy, Naval Support Activity Annapolis
Resource Category: Planning
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2019
In 2019, the City and County of Honolulu on the Hawaiian island of Oahu adopted an updated Multi-Hazard Pre-Disaster Mitigation Plan approved by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The dual purposes of the plan are to protect people and structures from damage, and to minimize the city and county’s disaster response and recovery costs. The plan, prepared by the Department of Emergency Management, addresses the relationship among various types of hazards, evaluates the effects of climate change, and prioritizes mitigation policies, actions, and projects.
Resource Category: Planning
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September 2018
The San Diego County Emergency Operations Plan is accompanied by an appendix, Annex Q which focuses on evacuation specifically by providing general evacuation routes and road capacities, county-wide shelter capacities, resources available locally, and through mutual aid and access considerations for people with disabilities. Annex Q outlines strategies, procedures, recommendations and organizational structures that can be used to implement a coordinated evacuation effort in the San Diego County Operational Area. Annex Q also contains estimates on the number of residents within communities in the county who may require evacuation assistance, sheltering, transportation and help with pet evacuation.
Related Organizations: San Diego County, California
Resource Category: Planning
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December 2016 (amended January 2017)
The Wisconsin Emergency Management (WEM) agency identifies the major hazards Wisconsin faces, and recommends actions to reduce vulnerability in the Wisconsin Hazard Mitigation Plan. This 2016 version acknowledges the risks of climate change, noting that the state has already experienced an average 1.1°F increase in temperatures over the last 50 years.
Related Organizations: Wisconsin Emergency Management Department of Military Affairs
Resource Category: Planning
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August 2016
In 2016, the State of Maryland updated its Hazard Mitigation Plan (HMP) and included consideration of how climate change will affect the natural hazards that threaten the state's critical facilities, assets, and citizens. The plan analyzes risks of natural hazards in each region of the state, and provides data to guide hazard mitigation decisions and prioritize at-risk areas. The plan was developed by the Maryland Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) in coordination with other planning and adaptation initiatives at the local, state, and federal levels.
Related Organizations: Maryland Emergency Management Agency
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December 2015
The City of Charleston, South Carolina released a Sea Level Rise Strategy in 2015 with recommendations on actions the city can take to improve its long-term resilience to sea level rise (SLR) and recurrent flooding. The purpose of this document is to inform and provide an overall strategy and guiding framework to protect lives and property, maintain a thriving economy, and improve quality of life by making the City more resilient to sea level rise and recurrent flooding. The strategy includes current and proposed initiatives developed by a sea level rise task force.
Related Organizations: City of Charleston, South Carolina
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June 2015
Monterey County, California and its twelve incorporated municipalities have integrated climate change into their combined Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan. Hazard Mitigation Plans guide state and local efforts to reduce disaster losses of life, property, and infrastructure, including transportation assets. Home to more than 400,000 people, Monterey County sits along the California coast, where it faces numerous climate-connected - often interrelated - threats, including sea-level rise, coastal erosion, flooding, wildfires, and landslides, which can all affect transportation.
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June 1, 2014
The 2014 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan updates Berkeley California's 2004 Disaster Mitigation Act, providing information on initiatives already underway to increase disaster resilience as well as outlining new risk assessments and policies. This update incorporates climate change into the plan, framing it as both a standalone hazard of concern, as well as an exacerbating factor in other hazards.
Related Organizations: City of Berkeley, California
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October 15, 2013
The City of Baltimore Maryland’s Disaster Preparedness and Planning Project (DP3) was created by the Department of Planning as an effort to address existing hazards while simultaneously preparing for predicted hazards due to climate change. This project develops a program that integrates an All Hazards Mitigation Plan (AHMP), floodplain mapping, and climate adaptation planning. DP3 links research, outreach, and actions to create a comprehensive and new risk-preparedness system for addressing existing and future impacts.
Related Organizations: City of Baltimore, Maryland
Author or Affiliated User: Kristin Baja, CFM
Resource Category: Planning
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September 30, 2013
California’s 2013 Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan Update was approved by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in September 2013. Prepared by the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES), this report is a comprehensive update of the 2010 State Hazard Mitigation Plan (SHMP) addressing the impacts of disasters caused by natural, technological, accidental, and human-caused hazards in California.
Related Organizations: State of California, California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Author or Affiliated User: Michael McCormick
Resource Category: Law and Governance
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