Webinar
Integrating Water Quality and Nature-based Approaches into Hazard Mitigation Plans
Environmental Protection Agency
March 14th, 2019, 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. EST
Cost and Access: Free, register online before the event
This webinar from the EPA’s Watershed Academy series will look at lessons learned from two pilot programs that integrated watershed planning with hazards mitigation. Topics will include opportunities to incorporate green infrastructure in mitigation efforts, funding for hazards-aware water projects, flood insurance rate reductions, and improved water quality.
Webcast
Comprehensive School Safety Policy Trends
Save the Children
Cost and Access: Free, available for viewing
This recorded webinar focuses on applying research in urban child-centered disaster risk reduction and comprehensive school safety to policy matters. Topics include opportunities and challenges in policy development and implementation, trends and gaps in policy adoption, and case studies from Asia and the Pacific region.
Webcast
The Role of People in Changing U.S. Fire Regimes
National Academies of Sciences
Cost and Access: Free, available for viewing
This webcast, recorded after the nation’s costliest fire season ever in 2018, examines how human interaction in the wildland-urban interface is changing the essential nature of wildland fire. Topics include how to live with fire, building better, and fire mitigation.