Mitigation
As the cornerstone for emergency management, mitigation should be viewed as a long-term strategy for creating safer communities. Effective hazard mitigation planning can break the costly cycle of disaster-repair-disaster in a community and prepare it for a safer, more sustainable future.
Moving communities toward disaster resiliency.
From pre-disaster planning to technical assistance and planning support for mitigation efforts during recovery, IEM works to help communities reduce loss of life and property and move toward disaster resiliency.
Understanding current mitigation requirements.
IEM's experienced disaster response and recovery personnel have walked in the shoes of state and local emergency managers and other decision makers and apply their knowledge and experience to support the integration of mitigation into post-disaster recovery operations. Our extended mitigation support team is well-versed in current planning guidance and programs at all levels as well as in the latest hazard research and emerging technologies.
IEM's mitigation capabilities include:
- FEMA Mitigation Program Support (HMGP, PDM, NFIP, etc.)
- Hazard Mitigation Program Management Support
- DMA 2000-Compliant All-Hazard Mitigation Plans
- Natural & Man-Made Hazard Profiling
- Hazard, Risk, Vulnerability, & Mitigation Capability Assessments
- Loss Estimation & Consequence Analyses
- Public Education & Outreach
- Floodplain Management & Environmental Analyses
- Cost-Benefit Analyses & Mitigation Action Prioritization
- HMGP (Sections 404 and 406) & Other Grants Program Support
- Mitigation Planning & Protection Techniques Training
