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November 19, 2024, 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. MST

Briefing on the Launch of the Third Assessment of Natural Hazards

What You Need to Know: Updates to FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation and Policy Guidance

Webinar Description:

Please join us for this special briefing on the launch of the Third Assessment of Natural Hazards.

The last national assessment of natural hazards and disaster research appeared in print in 1999. Since then, the threats that we face as a nation have multiplied, the number of people affected by natural hazards is at an all-time high, and the amount of research produced has grown dramatically. It is time to take stock of what is known in this field.

In this session, Natural Hazards Center Director, Lori Peek, will describe the purpose and scope of the upcoming Third Assessment. Participants will learn about the structure, the planned approach, and the audiences the assessment will serve. A working outline will be presented, and participants will hear more about how they can contribute.

This will be the first large-scale update of the state of hazards and disaster research in the United States since Disasters by Design and the companion volumes were produced as part of the Second Assessment. We hope you will join us to learn more and hear how you can be involved in this important effort.

Speaker

Lori Peek, Natural Hazards Center

Natural Hazards Center Overview Slides
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Lori Peek

Lori Peek is director of the Natural Hazards Center and professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder. Peek also leads the National Science Foundation-funded CONVERGE facility and the Social Science Extreme Events Research (SSEER) network. She is author of Behind the Backlash: Muslim Americans after 9/11, co-editor of Displaced: Life in the Katrina Diaspora and the Handbook of Environmental Sociology, and co-author of Children of Katrina and The Continuing Storm: Learning from Katrina. She helped develop and write school safety guidance for the United States, which resulted in the publication of FEMA P-1000, Safer, Stronger, Smarter: A Guide to Improving School Natural Hazard Safety.