This one-day awareness level course will provide
participants with an understanding of the concept of resilience as it applies
to coastal communities with a focus on resilience as a unifying framework for
community-based planning, preparedness, response and recovery. The course will
emphasize target capabilities to enhance preparedness and response to natural
disasters, including chronic, as well as extreme events affecting coastal
communities. It will demonstrate how to integrate risk-based, community-based,
and collaborative strategies into plans and programs.
The goal of the course is to enhance the participant’s
ability to support preparedness and response efforts by developing and
sustaining resilient coastal communities. The course is targeted for a broad cross section of professionals involved in emergency management, fire services, coastal zone managers, planners, developers, and municipal services.
Attendees are eligible for 8 Continuing Education Credit
Hours for planners under the American Planning Association (APA), emergency
managers under the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM), and
floodplain managers under the Association of State Floodplain Managers
(ASFPM).
FOR REGISTRATION & MORE INFO:
https://ndptc.hawaii.edu/training/delivery/1743
