S7E6 - Pre-Disaster Mitigation Needs to Quickly Ramp Up in the US. Will it? - a podcast by Antoine Walter
from 2022-10-07T03:00
with ποΈ Nick Shufro - Deputy Assistant Administrator, Federal Insurance & Mitigation Administration, Resilience, FEMAΒ
Β π§ The Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration (FIMA) manages the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and a range of programs designed to mitigate against future losses from all hazards, including floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, and other natural disasters.
What we covered:
π§ How only 9 million insurance policies have been set in the US to protect people from flood risks, and how it's been a slow uptake to achieve that number.Β
π΄ How Ben Franklin's advice is still very actual in today's contextΒ
π± How the US federal administration set rules to enforce pre-disaster mitigation, even after a disaster has happened.Β
πΊπΈ How funding availability drastically evolved under the current US administration.Β
π How Nick's team comes in and meets people on the worst day of their lifeΒ
π How it's all about reducing disaster suffering, be it with pre-disaster mitigation or post-disaster remediation
π₯ β¦ and of course, we concluded with the π§ππ₯ππ πππ§π π¦πͺππ¨π©ππ€π£π¨ π₯ Β Β
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β‘οΈ Send your warm regards to Nick on LinkedIn;Β
β‘οΈ Visit FIMA's WebsiteΒ
β‘οΈ A big THANK YOU to Sciens Water for enabling this episode!
β‘οΈ Check out the full story (and an infographic) on how Pre-Disaster Mitigation shall be further developed on the website!
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