PLAN PROPERLY NOW OR PAY THE PRICE LATER: ELIMINATING THE DISCONNECT BETWEEN HAZARD MITIGATION PLANNING AND URBAN PLANNING
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Authors
Young, Mark H.
Subjects
city planning
hazard mitigation planning
urban planning
urban development
land use
climate change
cities
natural disasters
natural hazards
managed retreat
resiliency
resilience
hazard mitigation planning
urban planning
urban development
land use
climate change
cities
natural disasters
natural hazards
managed retreat
resiliency
resilience
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Morag, Nadav
Dahl, Erik J.
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2025-03
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Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School
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There currently is a disconnect between the urban planning processes that guide how cities develop and the hazard mitigation planning processes designed to protect cities from natural hazards. Given the ever-increasing frequency and severity of natural disasters impacting the United States, the root causes of this disconnect needed to be identified. Case studies examined how natural disasters impacted major cities within the United States, along with the effect that urban and hazard mitigation planning efforts had in mitigating the effects of natural disasters. These case studies identified that the disconnect between planning disciplines was arbitrary, caused by organizational structures, versus any actual disconnect between planning processes. Two key contributors to this disconnect were caused by the length of time between when a plan is developed and when it becomes reality, and how the failure of infrastructure can render even the most thorough of plans valueless. Reconceptualizing hazard mitigation as an integral element of urban planning is a solution to resolve this disconnect between planning disciplines to allow cities to grow safely in the face of ever more severe natural disasters.
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