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Title: Mitigation insights from emergency managers on working with stakeholders
Emergency managers have the important responsibility of planning and implementing mitigation policies and programs to reduce losses to life and property. To accomplish these goals, they must use limited time and resources to ensure the communities they serve have adequately mitigated against potential disasters. As a result, it is common to collaborate and coordinate with a wide variety of partner agencies and community organizations. While it is well established that strengthening relationships and increasing familiarity improve coordination, this article advances that narrative by providing direct insights on the ways a select group of local, state, and federal emergency managers view relationships with other mitigation stakeholders. Using insights from a 1-day workshop hosted at the University of Delaware to gather information from mitigation stakeholders, this article provides a discussion of commonalities and challenges workshop participants identified with other stakeholder groups. These insights can inform other emergency managers about potential collaborators and coordination opportunities with similar stakeholders in their own communities.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1830511
NSF-PAR ID:
10440468
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Journal of Emergency Management
Volume:
21
Issue:
2
ISSN:
1543-5865
Page Range / eLocation ID:
123 to 131
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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