Title:11/30/18 – در گذشته – طوفان هاروی و تأثیر بر محله های آفریقایی آمریکایی

این پخش اینترنتی در حال حاضر فقط برای مشاهده در دسترس است و دیگر برای اعتبارات AICP CM قابل استفاده نیست. با حمایت مالی: بخش برنامه ریزی و جامعه سیاهان توضیحات: برای بسیاری از افرادی که در نزدیکی خط ساحلی خلیج تگزاس-لوئیزیانا زندگی می کنند، ۲۵ آگوست ۲۰۱۷ همیشه روزی به یاد ماندنی خواهد بود. در این روز، در حالی که طوفان دسته چهار، هاروی، در امتداد خط ساحلی حرکت می کرد، بیست و هفت تریلیون گالن آب شروع به ریختن به منطقه کرد (Zarracina، ۲۰۱۷). ویرانی ناشی از طوفان هاروی ده‌ها هزار نفر از مردم منطقه را تحت تأثیر قرار داد و خانه‌ها و مشاغل را ویران کرد و هزاران نفر را مجبور به تخلیه به پناهگاه‌ها کرد. این طوفان عظیم ۱۰۰۰ ساله بیش از ۴۰۰۰۰ خانه را ویران کرد و بیش از ۱۲۵ میلیارد دلار خسارت وارد کرد (بلیک، ۲۰۱۸؛ FEMA، ۲۰۱۷). هنگامی که مردم ساکن در این منطقه جغرافیایی شروع به بازسازی کردند، یکی از حوزه های مورد علاقه که ارزش بررسی دارد، برابری فرآیندهای آمادگی، واکنش و بازیابی در میان جمعیت های اقلیت، به ویژه آمریکایی های آفریقایی تبار است. از نظر تاریخی، تحقیقات نشان داده است که “جوامع کم درآمد و جوامع رنگین پوست از حمایت لازم برخوردار نیستند (بولارد، ۲۰۱۷).” در سرتاسر طوفان هاروی واضح بود زیرا رسانه‌های محلی و ملی مناطقی از هیوستون را نشان دادند که جمعیت اقلیت بالایی نداشت، علی‌رغم تنوع کلی هیوستون. این مطالعه از ترکیبی از نقشه‌برداری GIS، مصاحبه‌های غیررسمی و تحلیل محتوا برای بررسی تأثیرات طوفان هاروی بر جامعه سیاه‌پوستان، به‌ویژه در جوامع تاریخی آفریقایی آمریکایی در هیوستون، تگزاس استفاده می‌کند. در این مقاله اقداماتی که دولت‌های محلی، ایالتی و فدرال برای آماده‌سازی، پاسخگویی و بازسازی جامعه استفاده کردند، مورد بحث قرار خواهد گرفت. علاوه بر این، این مقاله هرگونه تأثیر نامتناسب و بی‌عدالتی‌ای را که جامعه سیاه‌پوست متحمل شده است، مورد بحث قرار می‌دهد تا تصمیم بگیرد که آیا جمعیت آفریقایی آمریکایی نسبت به همتایان خود بیشتر یا کمتر آماده هستند. از همکار PBCD که این تحقیق را انجام داده است، مقامات شهر و مربیان برجسته کاهش خطر درباره طوفان هاروی و تأثیر آن بر جامعه سیاه پوست صحبت می کنند.

قسمتي از متن فيلم: Hello everyone and welcome to today’s webcast my name is Ben Frost and I’m with EPA’s northern New England chapter and I’m one of the coordinators of the planning webcast series this series is brought to you by a consortium of over a forty of a piays chapters and divisions

Consortium itself is not affiliated with APA but rather is a loose knit association whose mission is to provide high quality free webinars on topics important to planners that will also help them to meet their certification maintenance requirements today is Friday November 30th 2018 and we’ll hear the presentation in retrospect hurricane

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Now I want to introduce one of today’s speakers joy Simeon joy is a joy is a doctoral student at the University of Texas A&M our Texas A&M University excuse me people are sensitive about those things studying urban and regional studies Sciences with a focus on Hazard Mitigation joyous research interests are

In building community capacity within multi hazard communities using digital technologies she’s also interested in understanding the relationship that social capital plays in communities of low income and of end of color post pre post disaster impact so joy I’m going to hand the screen over to you and take it away good afternoon

Like you said my name is Julie Simmons and I’m a doctoral student at Texas A&M I had the honor of being awarded the Robert a Catlin David W long fellowship this past summer and as part of the fellowship I was asked to examine the immediate effects that her team Harvey had on the

African-american community within Houston I feel in the areas that all right a few of the areas that I will cover throughout the presentation will be a brief summary of the lit review the overall research design and some of the major findings since 1980 survivors have increased in

Frequency and in duration in fact there has been over 230 weather and climate related incidents costing over 1.5 trillion dollars the 2017 hurricane Sivas season was one of the most intense and active seasons the US has experienced there are over 17 new storms ten hurricanes six of those hurricanes

Were measured at a category and range between three and five the three storms were the greatest US impacts with hurricane Ana Maria and of course hurricane harpy these storms cost the United States over 300 billion dollars in damages natural disasters have long been a concern for communities

Especially those of low income and of color these concerns are not just linked to the physical damages of a storm because it’s very clear that storms have no respect of persons the disproportionate impacts within these communities pre and post disaster impacts are often leads to social vulnerabilities within a

Community like those of low income and mobility disablement and elderly population there leads to the strength of social networks for example Huell an individual call or we would relocate if damages occur if evacuations are needed this study examined hurricane Harvey and the impact that hurricane had on the Gulf Coast

Specifically in Houston Texas hurricane Harvey and literally made landfall in Rockport Texas and was measured at a category four it calls flooding at scales of 1,000 years storm and the storm initially made landfall on obviously four 370 and it primarily caused devastation and Louisiana and in Texas other areas if impacted were

Arkansas and in Tennessee they also received some damages from the storm as we saw him cut up towards the eastern part of the United States the storm released over 27 trillion gallons of water and it destroyed over 40,000 homes and caused over 150 billion dollars and damages the dollar amounts accounts for

Damages to homes furnishings vehicles commercial real estate and even public infrastructure I chose Houston Texas as the area of study for this project because of his proximity to the coastline and the devastation it received as a result Hurricane Hartley Houston is located a little over 30 miles from the Gulf Coast

And is home to the Port of Houston and the Ship Channel which makes it susceptible to not only hurricanes but also storm surges the city has a population of over two million people and is comprised of six Ward’s containing 88 super neighborhoods and a super neighborhood is a planning

Designation by the city of Houston to set priorities and address concerns of the community Houston experienced approximately 50 1.88 inches of rain which is equivalent to 1.2 trillion gallons of water it Ola filled bayous levees dams and reservoirs which has to go under which under weight control releases to prevent possible

Breaches the storm caused flooding both a historical prone areas but also in the areas that had never seen flooding of this nature as a result the storm cost over sixty eight hour excess like those related to direct impacts of the storm and 35 in directives though there’s a

Byproduct like heart attacks because of their impacts of the storm as stated disasters are increasing but one of the questions that is important to examine is that as these disasters are increasing who is being impacted and are they adequately responding and recovering from disasters where this research project I asked the question

Where african-american communities underrepresented throughout the disaster cycle as compared to other ethnic groups it is also important to note that this was not a rigorous study but excretory endeavor to examine overall experiences of the african-american population and how the event surrounding the storms were reported so i examined this

Question using a mixed method approach broken into three different phases the first phase was mapping using GIS the second phase was a Content analysis and the third was expert telephone interviews with community leaders in phase one my unit of analysis was community tabulation areas you see TAS were developed by the kinder Institute

Designed to serve as an approximation of super neighborhoods based on suitors geographic boundaries I selected spatial data from kinder Institute and the city of Houston open data website then I use the data to determine numbers of homes affected by the storm and to determine the number of african-americans affected this first

Map uses census level population data to illustrate the locations that contain the highest percentage of african-americans living within the Houston CTAs the darker the color the higher the question of african-americans living in that particular CTA the top 15 african-american neighborhoods are located within the southeast and the northeast Houston region the second map

Uses the spatial data collected from life and the city of Houston to illustrate the CTA’s that were greatly impacted by Hurricane Harvey the darker the color the higher the percent impacts the analysis here is how the units I then overlaid the applicant American population map over this dataset to

Determine if higher areas of African American populations experience more flooding as compared to other areas and found that there were only moderate level of flooding as compared to other areas even in the top 15 heavily populated opportunities GTA the table on this slide highlights the top 15 African American neighborhoods and their percent

Of units impacted by Hurricane Harvey the top three CTAs were minute x is our homes and third wards to further understand the results of the visual a few tests were conducted to compare the knees or the percentage of housing units with their GPAs and the percent of neighborhoods containing high numbers of

African Americans result of the t-test show that there is no major statistical difference the key takeaway from this section or this page is that there was no major correlations there was no participa significance and nor was there any way to just look at the map and definitively say that there was a

Difference between areas with high levels of African American residents and areas comprised of other ethnicities however this does not mean that people living in these regions were not dis fortunately impacted it just means that the spreading was so widespread just doing a jeaious position stays – we use the contour

Analysis to determine if the media highlighted african-american neighborhoods impacted by Hurricane Harvey the unit of analysis here were pretty identified phases phrases and words about race and disasters we use for media outlets – national media outlets was the New York Times and cable news network and then to local media

Sources which was Texas Tribune in the Houston Chronicle these outlets were chosen based off content analysis literature myself and a second coder counted all the words and phrases between the hurricane Harvey they recorded them using a google form for 144 articles the results of the content analysis indicated that neighborhoods

Were mentioned 144 times Avett amount african-american neighborhoods were mentioned 46% of the time compared to other neighborhoods those are there those are very intensities were mentioned 54% of the time 14 african-american neighborhoods were increasingly mentioned but only three neighborhoods mentioned correlated with a mapping analysis which was East

Houston Acres homes and cashmere garden we also looked at whether the article contained pictures of majority black resident which only occurred 15 point three percent of the time and many of those same pictures were repeated in other articles that did not pertain to the topic being discussed we also looked

At whether or not the picture has flooded streets which was about 73 percent of the time the key takeaways of the contra analysis was that african-american neighborhoods were mentioned less than neighborhoods comprised of other ethnicities and the african-american images were used in multiple articles on various topics related to Harvey some would naively

Relate to the topics within in the articles these takeaways are significant because when it comes to ensuring that all people are represented equally and equitably it’s hard to do so when they are not given a platform as a villain in Phase three I used a combination of a self-selection snowball and Cadiz

Sampling method to conduct telephone interview with community leaders in regard to the community preparedness response and recovery processes these community leaders representing 10 neighborhoods although not comprehensive the respondents and the information collected provided a method to explore these processes our initial sample size was 24 community leaders but I only received a response

From 15 of those community leaders the survey instrument contains 12 questions left in about 15 minutes the preparedness results indicated that before Hurricane Harley made landfall 60% of participants that there were no training or supplies available to their neighborhoods the other 30% of the trainings and the supplies were

Available while 7 percent of the respondents chose not to answer or did not know the answer to the question the response results indicated that after hurricane Harvey made landfall 64 percent of the community leaders about 9 opinion leaders stated that their neighborhoods had to be evacuated by the

National Guard fire trucks etc the length of the response took between a few hours and a few days when asked if there were any Good Samaritan rescues everyone who answered the question said yes the response time for Good Samaritan rescues were within a few hours the recovery results indicated that 50 to

۱۰۰ percent of the homes within the neighborhoods received some type of damage while 58 percent of those homes still need repairs the types of repairs that are still needed are both structural and nonstructural most of the damages that occurred were quite severe this question was asked as an open-ended

Question and they respond as imported that there is still need of mold remediation foundation work framing and they’re also requesting resources to elevate home to prevent repeat flooding because most of these areas are near the bayous of swamps and other tributaries leading throughout the Houston area the results also indicated that 55% of

Homes that were damaged were occupied by the elderly 56 percent of homes were occupied by children and of those homes 53 percent still needed repairs when asked of hurricane Harvey affected any major infant structure within the key all the responding strategists and noted that hurricane Harvey just access burry

The areas that were already concerned in the community this was also asked as an open-ended question and some of those issues were buckling roads sidewalks poor drainage and all have been attributed to the need for by your mediation when responders were asked at hurricane Harvey affect the trees

Ability to access fresh fruits and vegetables eighty six percent of respondents stated that the food accessibility was an issue before and after Hurricane Harley made landfall eighty nine percent of businesses returned to the neighborhood however some of those businesses took upwards to six months one respondent indicated that

Places like the foodarama a grocery store were quicker to return than the mom-and-pop like shop Keith takeaways is that hurricane Harley exasperated the already present issues within the african-american communities within Houston like most studies this study contain a wide range of limitations such as a short time period

To complete their study the inclusion of a secondary data sources and interviews were not random samples and contain a very small sample size however this study was adjusted to handle those limitations with the use of a second coder for the content analysis and the support of hazard specialists we also

Elected to interview community leaders as compared to individuals as a reliable source of information for the entire community as stated this was not a regular study but exploratory endeavor to examine overall experiences of the african-american population and how the events around the storm will report it

The idea of this study is that we understand in the preliminary fashion that communities are being this fortunately misrepresented and hopefully these gaps can help to reshape practice and play early by sparking a conversation rather than concluding this presentation with quick facts I wanted to include a call to action as a

Researchers we know that disasters are increasing we also know that disasters in within themselves have no respect for a person but so many times as researchers we interview and survey and we map outcomes yet we rarely come up with beneficial solutions so as you go out and continue to an amazing studies

List think about methods to increase community capacity development Asian practices housing and infrastructure remodeling etc so we can help the communities in which we work be resilient I also want to acknowledge all those who made this research project successful and thank you guys for listening a special thank you to Texas

A&M University faculty Texas Southern University and my research team in the community partners thank you thank you joy I now want to turn it over to an introduced Eric Hall from the planning in the black community division of APA who has some in and we’ll also introduce our other

Speakers great Thank You Man and a good afternoon or if you’re in California on the west coast like me good morning I certainly want to thank each and every one of you for participating in this webinar this is plenty of black community divisions first webinar for the 2019

Calendar year and so we are excited to provide this for you and this is also historic because today is November 30th and today is technically the end of hurricane season there were certainly some impacts that this country and other countries particularly in a Caribbean experience and so we thought it would be

Helpful to just bring information to those who are interested in hazard mitigation planning in terms of issues of climate change and what we can do and we could not be prouder of our 2018 PBC D fellow Joyce joy Simeon who is a PhD student there at Texas A&M and it was

Just a delight to work with joy and preparing this research as Ben mentioned addition to joy we have two other speakers today our speaker we have a local speaker they’re from the Houston area who is Rick Flanagan who is the emergency management coordinator for the city of Houston in addition to Rick we

Also have a professor there at Texas A&M and that is dr. John Cooper Thomas who you will hear from shortly but before we begin with our other two speakers I wanted just to provide some brief information as it relates to the city of Houston joy may have covered a little

Bit of this in her presentation but just as a means of making sure that individuals understand the dynamic city that is Houston in the Greater Houston area I thought it was important to share some basic information on the city as you can see it is a sprawling city Houston was

Incorporated in 1837 currently the population estimate is around 2.3 million and it represents the fourth largest city in the United States I’m just going to minimize let me just minimize my screen for a moment and then it is obviously the largest city in the state of Texas there we go

And it relates to land area Houston is a sprawling 636 square miles and in addition to land area they represent almost 30 miles of water area making it just shy of 700 square miles the racial makeup includes 58 percent white black the black population there in the city

Is about 20 23 percent and then the next largest group or the the second largest group would be Hispanic of any race around 44 percent no doubt Houston is is fairly diverse in terms of its racial makeup in terms of the number of households within the city and this is

Actual city proper between 2012 2016 they were reported 831 thousand households within the entire city of Houston and as it relates to the percent of residents and poverty it’s right at 22 percent and this is of course was information that was conveyed through the US Census Bureau with an update

Join may have touched on a little bit of this information related to the hurricane itself but just kind of as a quick review hurricane harvey began forming and the atlantic ocean around august mid-august and 2017 at its peak it the date was around august 25th and then it dissipated

Fortunately around September 2nd 2017 right around Labor Day at its highest level it was a category 4 hurricane it’s known as one of the costliest hurricane on record recording recently as a hundred and twenty five billion dollars that it costs United States and other countries as well the lives lost are at

Least a hundred and six confirmed deaths in the United States and then one confirmed death in the Caribbean the highest winds sustained a maximum per hour of 130 and in terms of its overall impact at least 30,000 people particularly here in United States were displaced and of those 17,000 had to be

Rescued as it relates to the hurricane itself such as understanding the context of the city of Houston and understanding the hurricane itself I want to now introduce our first our second speaker I should say and that is none other than Rick Flanagan and Rick has a long civil

Service history there at the city of Houston he initially was involved with and worked for a number of years for the city’s fire department in fact Rick worked for the fire department for about 34 years before he retired and he retired as executive assistant chief for support just briefly as it relates to

His background and his role he oversaw fire department information technology infrastructure Human Resources and member support Buttrick entrance interestingly also was involved with Hurricane Katrina and he played an active role and key role and many emergency responses going throughout his career including acting as deputy area commander for hurricanes Katrina and

Rita and so it is at this point now I want to turn over the presentation to Rick and as a part of Rick’s presentation I came up with a couple six or so questions that I thought would be helpful for him to kind of direct his attention to and talk about the impact

Of hurricane Harvey on the city of Houston so with that I’ll turn it over to Rick ok well first let’s even thank you very much in situations like this of managing these these events one of the main thing that we do is that we pay close attention and work diligently with the

National Weather Service so our monitoring process is the beginning phase of this storm is as an outlier so this starts days ahead so it make things short and simple we’ll keep it short and simple once we identify the pathway of the hurricane we then started to put out our messaging and then we

Have what we confirm is our unified command and we give first start with all of our department members and directors of each division and we get them together so that we can get a clear understanding of their assets assets that we’ll use in anything that we might

Need as a replacement or what we call unmet needs so once we identify those assets we start pushing out information ability mainly from fire police and public works of what role they will play so they we move them ahead and get their families orchestrated so they can move

Them out of harm’s way and so then we come back in and make our preparations for the storm so the cities and readiness and assessment of all of the departments and assets that they have we move equipment around the city and at the same time on a daily basis three

Times a day we are monitoring the weather conditions so as we looked at the path where the storm indirect impact of the storm came in at Rockport and then it makes landfall and we know that once these storms make landfall they start to subside so coming in at

Rockport and so now we’re talking about how we process and start putting information out to the community what the message was in Rockport was distinctly different work for the messaging was in the city of Houston sew-in Rockport we’re telling people that they should evacuate and leave that

Area because of the impact of the storms but it’s the weather forecast that we’re receiving that this was going to be a tremendous rain to then and not so much of a wind event so with that being overview our messaging was totally different we were saying we can shelter

In place people can possibly stay within their homes and we could probably withstand this but little did we know that mother nature was going to put a twist in the process and we’re going to get this substantial rain storm almost some fifty something fifty two inches of

Rain and it was very devastating so when you talk about the magnitude of the three 2.3 million people in the city of Houston and the diversity that we have when we talk about the African American community we’re talking about the high probability that there is not a father

Figure in most of those families so our messaging is out where we put out our general community messaging about building have a plan build a kit stand form know your neighbors take care of your food so you can sustain yourself to five to seven days if you think that you

Need to probably move out of harm’s way or we’ll probably be impacted and you’ll need electricity or something like that it would be best the proper to relocate so these are all part of the equations that we put in try to communicate to the general public what would be the best

Thing that they can do so we we push that information out first and now when the storm impacts us not only was it a hundred year storm that was dynamically different you’re talking about a rain capacity that has never been seen before and so first of all we live in a

Hurricane belt so we’ve been through this process several times but this particular time the rain impact was so significant that it inundated the city is inundated the city from what our resources were and it just made a brand-new model for us to study and move forward so that is the word

I’ll probably leave that factory and back away from the preparation activities I mean and now we’ll get a little bit more in that communication piece so the communication piece is that we’re still doing these day-to-day briefings three times a day so that we can get information and Intel about

What’s impacted where we’re going to apply resources what backup resources that we need and that funding model because we’re we have a burn rate of using equipment personnel and staffing and fooding and relocation and preparing and looking for possibilities we can open up different shelter locations all

This is just the time mechanism that continues to go on and on and on so we’re trying to make sure that we can communicate to the public what the status of the condition of the storm is how much longer we might be inundated we’ve got units that are out there that

Are patrolling they’re affecting rescues one of the unique factors we found out when you talk about what’s the new horizon in managing emergency events is that the process or the program that we talk about is the cert program and the cert program is really is so important

Is that it’s a group of citizens that come together in the general community and they’re being trained on how they can engage in assisting people now when you talk about the 2.3 about 12,000 5,000 as police 4,000 as fire about 2,000 plus or Public Works that’s not

Enough to spread around from over 600 something square miles to affect the assistance in rescuing people so that Community Emergency Response Team that cert training really became a very valuable tool for us and you’ll see that this has been around for years and I think that’s going to be the cornerstone

To manage your merjan sees in the future moving moving forward they play such a vital role because believe it or not we’re really not the first responders because the first responders are going to people be the people in the neighborhood so now we know how to better manage that and so that

Communication piece of what assets that they may need where we’re picking people up moving them to drop-off sites and then moving them from the drop all because of lilypads we’re dropping people off we move those people to shelters we found out that the rain was

So intense we would open up a shelter we would have to those that shelter because the waters continue to rise so it was a continual management process and the communication is the cornerstone to any of your managed management process or processes in any aspect of managing emergency or

Any event that has any significant impact to your city or our the jurisdictions in which you live the final piece I want to get into is that we call the post recovery and what are some of things we learn there well when you have that inundation and I can’t

Remember the lady’s name for am but she did a very good presentation and she mentioned about the impact of how these homes were and buildings were impacted you have to go in and remove this debris out you have to tell her tear certain levels of your sheetrock out so that you

Can can you can stop the potential mold that builds up and you can have an opportunity to probably have a good assessment and find out what you can do to rebuild your property but at the same time as you remove that debris we have to get it off the streets because it

Becomes a health hazard and when you talk about that many communities and the number of populations that we have we don’t have enough as a structured entity for is debris removal that we can move all this so you have to have contracts with other cities that can come in and

Help you out to get those things out of the way and so when we look at that as how important it is we’re looking now for is damage assessment we’re looking for assistance from FEMA to come in and to assist us and also to we’re trying to

Make sure that we put out information to the general public so they can be worried about what contractors should be doing what they should not be doing so that they can make sure that they put their plans together that the city now has made has got all the information of

The impact and how it’s impacted them and they’re making sure that they will abide by the city ordinance of rebuilding these homes which jettisons us to the new city ordinance for those certain areas that were impacted you have to elevate your home no longer can you rebuild it as it was before

So the mitigation piece is a cornerstone to this in the end is truly an important mitigation piece really goes a little bit beyond just a home and community it goes into the thoroughfares about your buy use or how they need to be widen and open how you should probably rebuild certain

Buildings and move your generators up there’s just so many things you have to put into that process of reevaluate so it becomes very important and I honestly want to say it’s just an englis process and you’ll learn something at every one of these storms great thank you for that Rick and we certainly

Appreciate your perspective from the city of Houston I think many of us were watching TV and watching the news and watching the hurricane coverage and we were praying for it to be you know least impactful to the Gulf quote that Gulf Gulf area in that region because we

Realized that there are so many people that live in the area and we had hoped that there had been the proper planning and preparation to make sure that people were being moved to a higher ground or some shelter area so it’s great to hear about the resiliency that the city had

In place for that in part one thing before you back away from me is one thing when we talk about hurricanes it’s mainly the wind condition we talk about the category and it was a cat for when it made landfall in Rockport but as I mentioned to you it started to suicide

Could you imagine how bad this would have been if we’d have still had the wind conditions like we’ve had before I’ve been with the city now almost 40 years and in 1983 we had hurricane Alicia that impacted the city and we had to close downtown because it knowledge

Did all of the high-rise building windows and it becomes charged in charge of plastic continue to fly so imagine how much worse this would have been if we’d had the wind capacities to also be a part of the rain capacities that impacted the city as well absolutely absolutely

Let’s transition now to our next speaker and that is going to be John Thomas Cooper jr. PhD John is associate professor of practice specific working as the Texas target communities director at Texas A&M University I’m not quite sure how they’re doing this well in football season but I’m sure he’ll

Give us an update in addition to Texas target unities he has affiliations with hazard reduction and Recovery Center the deaq obviously works in a department of landscape architecture and planning there at the University and the Center for Housing and Urban Development by way of Education John received a Bachelor of

Arts degree in economics from Texas A&M and in 1992 he joined many of us planners by earning a master’s degree in urban planning from Texas A&M and eventually a PhD and city original planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2004 and so

With that I would like to turn it over to Professor Cooper and I have some targeted questions for him related to past and current research regarding hazard mitigation and planning and what does he see as the future of this field and where are we headed and what are some of the current leading

Studies thanks Derek so again my name is John Cooper I am also assistant vice president for public partnership and outreach here at Texas and that’s my my day-to-day job but as you mentioned I am a director of the Texas hard communities program which is an initiative aimed at helping small

Towns rural communities neighborhoods or communities within urban places like Houston get access to hope from planning faculty and students on economic development comprehensive planning endeavors and so forth and I am a professor of the practice in the urban planning program although I I’ve only been back in the university since 2012

Before then I work for a non-profit based in North Carolina doing a lot of community community engagement community development work my dissertation work was on the extent to which marginalized populations are accounted for in disaster planning and I looked at a national sample of disaster plans trying

To discover the extent to which again marginalized populations are included in the planning the the level of commitment from local planners and emergency managers to do inclusive planning I got to tell you I didn’t find a whole lot and I’ll come back to that towards the

End over the last 2025 years or so since I finished my master’s degree I also I also did a stint with the North Carolina Division of Emergency Management as a planning specialist and project coordinator for the state’s hazard mitigation grant program after hurricane Fran in 1996 so over the last twenty

Twenty-five years so I’ve been writing and researching working doing and being in the hazard mitigation and Community Planning space you know your question too I thought was interesting I haven’t been asked that but I got to tell you as an as a I’m going to say a an academic

That kind of dabbles in research and dabble in practice as well what was my reaction to hurricane harvey and its impact houston I can tell you as hurricane harvey was looming my good reaction was you know here we go again right joy I heard her say that her her

Talk her study was exploratory but I got to tell you as I was listening I couldn’t help but feel like you know we’ve heard these stories before Katrina was the first time that I think some of these issues were brought to the nation’s attention but in in my own

Research and practice over time I learned that there was plenty of evidence before Hurricane Katrina that certain populations experienced at the end of a disproportionate impact from disasters I found studies or I should say stories in my doctoral work that went as far back as the the fire that destroyed San

Francisco I talk a lot about Princeville North Carolina after Hurricane Floyd in 1999 many of you might have heard of Princeville if you haven’t look it up it’s the oldest surviving Talon incorporated by african-americans in the you know in the United States are still surviving and it was literally founded

On the banks of the Tar River where the newly freed slaves went to seek the safety and refuge of an Union army encampment they built the town on the banks of that River and and by 1999 it inflated nine times and so you know as an academic and a researcher I hear

These stories and I think again you know here here we go again yet you know but by definition disasters are things you can’t totally prepare for as Rick said you know the rain and hurricane Harvey was extraordinary right this is this is something that despite all we know about

Past disaster despite all the history we’ve had in the Gulf Coast with disasters we weren’t quite ready for the rain you know but the the way that certain populations are fared after disaster I think was totally predictable and this kind of relates to your third question based on current research you

Know is there a difference in african-american neighborhoods versus other neighborhoods and so what is that difference I feel like there is a entire bodies of knowledge just on these subjects just the way the media reports on studies stories and disasters in the inequities related to recovery programs

And so forth I can remember taking a course when I was a master student on the media and disasters and we learned about how the media can manipulate images we talked about the Loma Prieta earthquake and how on TV we would see images of destroyed buildings where just

The camera person had swung the camera around there was no other devastation on that Street and so media seeks to fill a void is the same thing with a lot of stories about the way crowds react in disasters we we we we are fearful of mobs but if you

Look into mob behavior some of my sociologists or friends will tell you there there’s there’s some rationale to that sometimes and so I won’t dig into the complexities or all those things because that’s not really what what I’m an expert in what I can say though is based on my research and experiences

That I feel like pre-disaster planning is the key to a stronger community fabric and greater resilience and in response to disasters and the fact is it’s very very hard if not impossible to be thoughtful you know strategic judicious equitable fair whatever you want to say in the

Midst of chaos and so I kind of feel like what we do as planners if we can get ahead of it pre-disaster planning I’m talking about specifically we can do a lot to minimize the impacts of disasters on the places that we care most about SC where climate change all

Right so uh although I haven’t been a dyed-in-the-wool acting the mission for the last 20 years I have had the privilege to hang around with a lot of people who are steeped in their research in their work and and I’ve hung out with a lot of I’m just going to say older

People more experienced researchers who believe strongly in what their research is telling them about the influence of climate change and weather conditions in events like hurricane Harvey and I trust those folks one of the things I anybody who’s working on a PhD if you go to a

Reputable place you’re taught how to be discriminate you’re taught how to panic is it to be critical and the folks that I trust who’ve been doing the climate change research for decades tell me that this is playing a role so I tend to try to avoid getting into the weeds

On climate change discussions less I be a you know revealed as a fraud but the people I trust say it’s a factor in I believe you know I’m just going to leave it at that whereas has a mitigation planning headed and what are the leading studies you

Know I hope it’s headed towards more inclusiveness this is what my work has been about over the last 20 years I decided not to go into the Academy because in my dissertation work I concluded that even when emergency managers believe in the value of inclusive planning it’s not something

That they are skilled at doing they are typically trained in top-down models of decision-making the incident control or incident command system which is good I you know I came for that I was a professional emergency planning planner my dad was a emergency medical technician so those kinds of systems

Those kinds of ways of making decisions have a time in place but when you’re talking about long-term planning for resilience and community readiness you mean you need more of a community building approach and so I hope as a mitigation planning is headed more in that direction as far as leading studies

You know most of my work has been on the quality of mitigation plans that is you know to what extent do mitigation plans it exhibit the highest standards of planning and I’ve also you know looked at the commitment of planners to doing planning in an inclusive way so for me

That kind of stuff is always of worth looking into some of my colleagues here Phil Burke Jamie Masterson and others have been doing work on what what what I think I described as a network of plans that is how does your have a mitigation plan and you’re calm

Comprehensive plan or elements of your comprehensive land housing transportation infrastructure how do those things complement our conflict with each other is your mitigation plan calling for a moratorium on development in the flood zones or where’s your development plan is calling for a river walk you know so they’re doing some

Innovative work in that regard I want to direct folks to the hazard reduction and Recovery Center Center’s website for more information about the the kind of work that’s happening here at Texas A&M through not only Philbert but some other folks dr. Shannon Van Zandt walked peacocking and a lot of other people in

Addition to that there is a coastal hazard center of excellence at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill then I’m on the advisory board for there’s a lot of innovative stuff happening there are not direct folks to just go in and check that out so I’ll

You know in lieu of just going on talking about myself I see that we are coming close to the end of the hour and I’m curious as to what questions folks in the audience have Derrick is it is it okay if I kind of yield the remainder of

My time to get into more what people in the audience want to know about absolutely and that was going to be the next segue into the actual webinar so we were going to conclude with your presentation we’ve heard from our researcher we’ve heard from our expert

From the city of Houston and we’ve heard from also a professor there at the University and so now it’s this opportunity for those who are who are taking a part of the webinar here to ask some general questions those will be filled through our person on the other

End that is that is facilitating the discussions and so at this point we would ask if you have any questions send those to us and then we can read them on the screen as they come available okay there’s one more thing I want to say

Before we get there and I like joy to say more about the Bill Anderson fund and in particular as it relates to resources there’s a newly minted PhD at the University of Maryland Marcus Henderson’s doing some great stuff he’s in great demand he’s a he’s a

Great thinker I think he’s a person that folks ought to want to keep an aisle sounds good okay joy um stop in addition to the Robert a Catlin fellowship that I was awarded this summer for the last year I’ve had the opportunity to be a das fella which is a Bill Anderson of

Fun fellow it was named after Bill Anderson who was a hazard specialties who really promoted getting minorities involved in hazard research and so the idea behind this fellowship is to allow minority students especially those who specialize are going to PhD programs to really come in and be exposed to

Different hazard specialties of planning advisory teams and learn the skill sets that we wouldn’t have otherwise on another wondrous opportunity so it’s a really great program thank you joy so at this time for those who are tuned into the webinar if you have any burning questions from any of our speakers feel

Free to send those and then we will read them and direct them to the appropriate person okay Derek this has been I’ve got a series of questions and also a couple of observations you know here in in the Northeast I’m thinking back to Tropical Storm Irene which simply devastated

Parts of the state of Vermont our neighbor from here in New Hampshire and my my recollection of you know in addition to the overall damage which was mostly because of intensive rainfall that followed upon a period of ground saturation because of ongoing rain the the enormous amount of flooding that

Occurred really impacted in particular upon low-income population living in manufactured housing communities which had been located in areas that would have been susceptible to this sort of thing and I think you know this this is kind of a universal message of this webcast we need to think carefully about

The choices that we as planners make in deciding where things should go or helping people to decide where things should go and we I think sometimes you know hurricane Harvey is a case in point as is a hurricane Florence to earlier in South Carolina and North Carolina the

Amount of rain that fell really impacted how low-income communities tremendously so we have we have a lot of work to do and we have a series of questions here so I’ll get to them starting off with a question for joy this question comes from Krishna it has to do with the the

Media coverage of that took place in in Houston and Christmas asking the African American neighborhoods were mentioned 43 percent of the time in news articles do you consider that an under-representation of coverage because of the 56 percent mentioned of other neighborhoods I do considered an under-representation primarily because when they mentioned

Them it was in passing and not directly saying okay this Sunnyside neighborhood which is this african-american neighborhood in Houston um was directly impacted it was more of like oh we took a picture african-american neighborhood and mentioned this word and that was it so whenever they mentioned either white neighborhoods or even sometimes Hispanic

Neighborhoods they wail it’s a great detail of what was going on there the images matched so in that case I do find that it was underrepresented a lot especially the way that it was even viewed on the television okay thanks here’s a question for John also from Krishna are there any comparative

Studies on the impacts on economically poor areas black brown or white as compared to affluent areas policy and capital programming issues things like that I’m sure there are and there’s a person who I know who does this kind of work and her name is escaping me right

Now siren baka Jackie’s the short answer is yes and I have to get back to you with specifically on who who does that kind of work who there are who’s taking names to follow up on illegal humans and the responses on the plenty of black community divisions webpage and I’ll

Make sure that Derrick gets all the questions so that you can follow up directly with people who are asking them to user agent hit me up later here’s a here’s a question from Gordon has post-storm research found that historic and contemporary land use regulations significantly contributed to the extensive flooding impacts of Hurricane

Harvey redirected to its I know it might go to Rick or to John or to Joy um yeah yeah when we had it well a long just for just a shot at it the mitigation piece plays a very vital role once you have the impact you have an opportunity to

See what was impacted and how you can rectify the problem itself and this which is one of the factors here in the Houston area the in the late 80s there’s segments of Houston on the south side with the sage mount area where you get into the NASA community and it used

To flood all the time and they had a major project that they had pushed in the early 90s to widen Sims Bayou which control the the flow of water out of that community and it was truly effective so the plans had moved forward and I think we just kind of got caught

In the time span to address the other mitigation plans for the other multiple bayous in the city the other thing is rather factor for Houston took the topography of Houston Houston is very flat uh-huh and so that is we just don’t have that terrain that really could

Probably help in some sense so those things are very important the mitigation piece and looking at that sub terrain and how you manage it it which is another factor too is that now the new ordinance has a strict policy when you know you’re building buildings or high-rise buildings that you have to

Build or consider a retention pond I put drainage to help the process along and my response to that is I’m sure the folks who are on this call are aware of the the the history of planning and land use and I’ll just say that not just in

The South but also in places outside the South there there are only so many places that African Americans in particular could live and oftentimes those are in the floodplains I think over in the past those contexts have been set up intentionally I think today it’d be harder to say that the

Disproportionate risk is distributed by intention but you know these things don’t happen in a vacuum right there we got the context that we have in the conditions the forces the whatever led to the historical context has given us what we have today and then there are some

Actions that we can take today that we are taking today that exacerbate old issues right so I mean if you look at story Princeville they built a town on the banks of the river frankly there was no place else they could build it right that would be acceptable to the other

Folks right so whether the whether the issue is from intent or neglect the result is the same we’ve got a following up on this actually we have a question from Simone regarding they know Houston is famous for its lack of zoning and so she asks how has the built environment and lack

Of zoning in Houston impacted vulnerability to hurricanes and other weather events well I can honestly tell you it mixes commodities and so really we know the zoning truly helps the criteria for Houston is called deed restriction and so the deed restriction is a process but it’s starting to have a

Modern-day approach moving forward and they’ve now have they still are reliable for different commodities to be mixed in communities which is only dozen and so now they’re making a hardcore effort that whatever you bring in you’re going to have to orchestrate a plan in that and in that proposal that you can

Address the drainage is because the one thing that we definitely looked at more concrete more more flooding so it just doesn’t have a chance for the water to subside so that’s an equation as we move forward okay and I’ve got a question here for joy when conducting your phase 3 work

You mentioned you found a high percentage of damaged homes that were occupied by the elderly in the midst of collecting this data did you come across any data on whether those elderly persons suffered from chronic diseases as we know these can be exacerbated by the adverse effects of Hurricane

Disasters yeah so one of the interviews that I did a lady with talks about how her next-door neighbor was impacted by the flooding had to be evacuated out of the storm after are called early means up and so as the piece of six months later he ended up dying because of like

So much stress on the cart we ended up having a heart attack and then okay three months before that his wife died so a lot of that is what they call indirect impacts and so I saw the stories after stories throughout those interviews of those kind of impacts

Okay and so this is for John from Jennifer universities have a great deal of talent data and resources I’m interested in how Texas A&M is supporting local planning efforts to recover and rebuild that is data community engagement and so on great question and that’s actually my job as

Director of Texas target communities and assistant vice president for public partnership and outreach I am I first of all I go where I’m invited and obviously there was a lot of devastation across the southeast of Texas and only so much so much I can do in Texas target communities it’s me and

I have an associate director Jamie Masterson and we have one full-time program managers the most the rest of the work that we do is with the help of student workers and faculty and capstone or you know studio courses in the planning and landscape architecture program that

Said we on average try to work with at least two places a year Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Rockport I think we mentioned that in Rockport is one of the places that we are doing a comprehensive plan in this year another place is Hitchcock which happens to be in the

Same district where we had the mass school shooting in Texas just north of Galveston so that in the course of a year they had the school shooting and then they had Hurricane Harvey so we’re working with Hitchcock and Rockport and trying to help out in Port Arthur

Although you know the the the scope of work there is kind of still under development so that’s it I am situated at Texas A&M Collin but but Texas A&M is part of a university system that also includes Prairie View A&M Texas A&M Galveston Texas A&M Corpus

I don’t limit my reach just to faculty and students on this campus wherever I can provide assistance wherever I can broker relationships between places that reach out to me and our campuses and TMU system I try to do that and surprisingly this we don’t see enough of this there are Association service-learning

University engagement programs that are getting more attention but there’s still not a lot of it done and I don’t want to say I’m an innovator I certainly don’t think I’m the only one but I think there needs to be more folks doing what we do great thank you so here’s a question for

For Rick from Victoria how did or does the city of Houston decide or determine the placement of temporary debris sites for hazardous and household wastes how many of these were placed in african-american or low-income communities particularly such sites that brought waste from more affluent communities into african-american in low-income communities now those were

Moved to the corporate disposal site they didn’t have an in temporary sites we’d had a history in the past that they had orchestrated plans such as that and a lot of those were near some of the african-american communities and the meetings that followed that was one of

The main concerns so I will say that I would I would tip the government structure for the city of Houston from using past history to know some of the things not to do so that that was really averted and thank God for the past history that’s good to hear here’s I’m

Not sure who this would be for but I’ll just read it off this is from John what has been a strategy or approach for disaster preparation pertaining to evacuation for african-american communities that are at extreme threats to major events as communities are as these communities are traditionally

Settled in flood plains or their coastal low-lying areas we may have to read that one again yeah and this this this is not necessarily just about Houston and not necessarily just about african-american communities too but more it’s a focus on low-income communities the question is what has been the strategy or approach for

Disaster preparation pertaining to evacuation for african-american communities that are at extreme threats to major events I’m gonna put Rick on the spot ready let’s say that sounds more like a Rick question okay so what we’ve done we’ve looked at the impact of the lack of mobility especially in the

In the african-american communities on minority communities and they’re just a lot of families throughout the city itself that don’t have access so there is a state program for the state of Texas it’s called it’s called steer is the acronym the state of Texas emergency registry alert registry assistant

Registry and so what they do on an annual basis I think it starts in March each year they they refresh new downloads for people that don’t that have mobility problems that don’t have vehicles and you can register which steer and when we are doing those outlying days prior to the storm making

Landfall we’re calling those persons and telling them where we will pick them up and we’ll move those people to San Antonio Austin and Dallas as our pre plan okay thanks so here’s a question from Donna again I’m not exactly sure who would best be suited to answer this

But she asks how do you think FEMA policy effects redevelopment after hurricane do you think it would be helpful to have a national policy that addresses rebuilding or relocating away from or offer out of flood zones and barrier islands or do you think states should handle their own redevelopment

You know I’m just gonna hop in on this but I honestly think that’s such a legislative question mainly because these years you’re then talking about a tax infrastructure that the cities are basically looking at and so how do you govern that moving forward now there are buyouts as proposed plans in some

Inundated areas so that’s that’s a part of the overview that the city and the county gets together about how do you affect it and you got to remember when you affect about in a certain area those people probably there in that affected area are concerned but you got to

Remember there’s also the the overflow in the certain boundaries that affects and other people that they’re not going to be inside that that defined dimensions that as they’re laid out so that causes a little pain so it’s kind of its kind of complicating the sense to satisfy everybody but even when you do

It you have to have plans to how do you utilize the property moving forward because it could impact the aesthetics of a community and a lot of times there are some people that just don’t want to move in spite of so it’s hard to say moving forward I think that that’s

Something that the city of Houston is looking at now that for these areas such as the Marleen areas which is somewhat in the southeast mainly South Central Marlin was severely impacted I mean over and over and over again Memorial Day floods the Halloween Day flood and that

Runs right adjacent to the Braves bayou and so they’ve been impacted so many times people are just filled with frustration and so now the city ordinance says that if you read rebuild your home it has to be elevated and that’s a mathematical equation not just to a family but how do you manage

That as a government entity to what role do you play but overall you know it’s the long-term process is that how do you manage this this structure of remember Gotham in from a city standpoint it’s a tax on or a tax entity so how do you manage that

Overall so that you have people that are delighted to live in the community and they feel protected because the city of Houston is doing what they should be doing to protect them so I just want to also say this if it’s the last thing you remember what I might want to share with

You the largest room in the whole wide world is the room for improvement and we have to stay in that at the universities we have to stay in that and emergency management at the government structure as well that’s great advice and and Rick this is also for you also from Krishna

What was the role of the storm management division in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in proposing mitigation well they’ll propose they’re more or less mathematical equations and and they look at the end result in more detail the other phase of the mitigation is that we put together plans where we hold

Different meetings throughout the city in the different affected area so that we can get the citizens to come in and say what are your concerns that we need to table to address mitigation impacts so that we can have some improvements down the road and so when you lay out

This master mitigation plan they write the plan in the plants is has an entity time of five years and then they rewrite the plan again but at the same time you want to evaluate what was done in the prior five years into the opposed to the

To the new the new newly assigned year that starts off so in the new of the open year for that time spending you open up for the new next five years what did you successfully do on their previous five years so it goes hand in hand it’s it’s a it’s a continuous

Process but one thing is so important is that we have to have the general community’s input believe it or not a lot of these communities where African Americans live they want to live there they don’t want to move we have a lot of families that

Have lived there with fixed at 50 and 70 years generations a generation so it’s one thing for to be mindful is that we want to hear what your concerns are and one thing we want to do is I mentioned to you earlier we want to listen to your concerns and make

The improvements so you can really enjoy where you live and live where you will you desire to live and I think there’s an underlying message in what Rick just said and it sort of relates to the question Donna asked before which i think is a great question but Rick’s

Answer can illustrate the complexity and given a response to that but but I think as as far as planners go I think the better we are at the design and execution of planning programs that draw out the community voice I think the better the outcomes will be and I think

I think the our legislators state you know in national will start to pick up on that in my time I’ve encountered many people working at FEMA who who get it but whose hands are tied and oftentimes they have to pay you know give deference to folks at the states but but I think

The message to planners is we overall need to get better at our ability to design and execute inclusive planning programs programs that that seek draw out meaningful and incorporate the voice of the community and doesn’t just speak back just say we’re talking about this storm conditions but when we talk about

The phenomenon around the country for those people who live in the south area here in Texas in the Houston area we’re customed to the hurricanes that come here but look what happens to those that live in California and and they have the big big tires and the

Landslides and I mean just so there’s problematic factors all around the country and somehow we get acclimated to living here and we don’t want to go anywhere else but one thing we have to do is every opportunity we get every storm that we face we should put provisions have planned to improve what

We’ve gone through and make it better absolutely a band this is Derrick let’s take maybe two more questions and then we can do a wrap-up okay here’s here’s a question from Ashley what efforts were made in public education after the storm about structure safety mold removal filing for

Assistance etc she said we have a difficult time disseminating information to impoverished communities because of their relative lack of access to mobile sources of information such as phones we largely rely on social media first responders to share information shelters to spread information news media to share links to sites and location for

Information and word-of-mouth she’s asked are there any ha excellent methods to disseminate education after disaster was that a question to the group there’s a question to the group whoever this really is how do we communicate how do we get the word out after disaster about the resources that are available and the

Hazards and the the ongoing hazards post a disaster how do we communicate with low-income communities so we so we know the common denominator now is the new technology platforms and we know that that’s a high-caliber platform for a lot of people to use but you can’t consider

That everybody is engaged on the new platform for technology and so we found out when you know FEMA rolls out everybody feels as though that fine you can go online and you can just log on and put your information I’m not everybody has a laptop and everybody has

A computer you would be surprised that that doesn’t happen a lot of these low-income neighborhood so we still have to understand it with that system that we’ve our castrates still serves a vital purpose so you can’t diminish that probably to the to your to your mindset

Do you think that the process of what you and what your intent is the norm that everybody has access they don’t not only that there’s a literacy issue for some of the people too so people still need help don’t abandon those things that you used before but sharpen the

Tools that you use now and I would I would just say that you know in my experience I found that where there are trusted community based intermediaries and in disaster impacted places those are the ones that you want to interface with they are the ones who are again trusted

In the community have a track record of working in the community and they are the places that the folks who are most in need turned to anyway they are the safety net in communities so if you can find those places I would try to disseminate messages through through

Those and in you know as NGOs its Civic Association it could be like in Houston neighborhood associations churches of course but the folks who are know the context the indigenous people if you will yeah you’re absolutely correct cause you’d be surprised how many elders just still live alone and they do need

Some help and piggybacking off of what after Cooper here said I did my thesis on disaster education but not post on but pre-storm and one of the greatest as I said was a really good resource for me with the churches some of those community organizations and the legends

Like the representatives who works hand on hand with those can you remember they were a really good help I would just add that while you are reaching out to community-based intermediaries disseminating information it’s awful also helpful to let them know that there are certain things that they ought not

Be doing right that that might lead to situations where they’re liable for some injury or something like that after Katrina the Red Cross and FEMA and other organizations took a hit because they were there it seemed like they didn’t know where to go right and so my message to groups I was

Working with after Katrina was that you know there are certain things that you do that you’re good at but then there are other things that is better – The Electric Company you know like turning on the power you might organize a cleanup crew who can clear a path to a

Power line but the utility company has to turn on the electricity you might have space to house people temporarily but but you got to have permits or to serve food and so this better coordination I guess is what I’m saying and help in encouraging people to to the

As much as possible to stay at their Lane don’t get in on land of course unless there’s a vacuum in somebody has to do it then okay but otherwise pre-disaster coordination to figure out who does who does what who’s capable will doing what is best and let me just

Wrap up with regard to this question you know it strikes me that I would imagine any type of multi-faceted communications approach would work because if you think about it and just think about this instance while people may be readily wanting to go to social media if you have something like hurricane that’s as

Devastating as hurricane Harvey you may not have electricity and you may not have the networks in place to actually allow people to use their social media I reflect back on doing the news there are a number of people that couldn’t communicate with each other basically through their cell phone because cell

Phones were in cell towers were impacted by the hurricane and so it strikes me that I would think post post hurricane or post disaster recovery activities you have to consider a multi-faceted communications approach so using your traditional social media communication forms but also it’s possible given the

The conditions of the weather if you can knock on doors and check in on neighbors and check with other individuals to see if those who may not be able to be up early mobile in terms of navigating these types of crises find out kind of direct communication if they’ve been seeing if

Know the whereabouts of these individuals so I would imagine just a multi-faceted communications approach I would probably be the best way and then to continue to follow up and follow through on that let’s take one more question and okay this is for John and recognizing that you know disasters are

Going to happen it seems like this is almost a a growth industry for planners so the question is have schools of planning started offering an elective in hazard mitigation planning Texas A&M has a certificate for folks who to focus and hazard mitigation planning I think after Hurricane Katrina there were a lot of

Programs that popped up certificate programs licensing programs so I think they’re probably more of them I haven’t done an inventory it’s a good question to see what what the status is across across the landscape but but I can assure you that at Texas A&M we we include some consideration of disaster

Planning mitigation planning in our offerings here every plan that Texas target community does for a small town includes a chapter on Hazard Mitigation planning so it’s it’s a core part of what we do here and I think it’s a big part of what what they do back at the

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill where I got my PhD that’s great that’s great news it’s great information to share I think it’s probably best that we wrap up this the webinar but before I do there are a couple of acknowledgments I want to make if in fact you have an

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To our website so that if individuals want to take a look and read of the research project that joy prepares they’re able to do so I would be remiss if I didn’t at this point first of all thank Ben frost who is our webinar coordinator then thank you for your work

Not only with this particular webinar but and our past webinars from playing the black community division really appreciate your support your diligence and all that you do to help us information out to individuals who are genuinely interested in the type of activities and a work in the research

That we’re doing as a division I want to also take a moment to just think again our presenters Rick Flanagan of the city of Houston dr. Cooper there at Texas A&M and certainly not least and most importantly George Simeon who is a PhD student there at Texas A&M University we

Truly appreciate your participation today and it just goes to show you that there really is a need to focus even within the planning realm of areas where they don’t necessarily get the type of emphasis and the research that are needed I want to thank the planning of uh community Division Executive Board

For helping to put all this together and with your feedback and preparation for this I want to thank the city of Houston and of itself I reached out to mayor Turner and eventually the request get down to Ric and so I just certainly appreciate the mayor’s leadership there and all of its staff

Including Rick and his team there and again just want to say it’s been a pleasure to kick off this webinar series on behalf of the division look for more webinars and we’ll have some additional focus on some additional topics coming up in 2019 and before I conclude I

Certainly want to direct your attention if you have any interest in joining plenty of black community division please visit the website wwhen org that’s a pas main website and go to divisions and there you will see application to not only join planning a black community division but a number of

Divisions within APA and a number of chapters if you are an APA member membership is just $20 $25 if you are not a member you can still join the division for $40 and if your student membership is free up to five division and so I encourage you to consider

Either obtaining a membership with with in planning about community division and one of the divisions of APA so that you can keep abreast of all the activities that were that are going on here I think I covered everything again thank you all for participating and have a happy holiday season

And on behalf of the planning webcast series thanks to everyone for joining today and look for more webcasts in the upcoming months in 2019 and remember to file your cm credits by going to planning org thanks very much everyone

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Time: 1543612118
Date: 2018-12-01 00:38:38
Duration: 01:25:46

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