Land Use Planning and Community Resiliency

Catalog description

Covers how to plan and design strong, fire resilient communities. Subjects include land use planning, resource management, homeland security, natural disasters, and wildfires. Examines and evaluates how communities address vulnerability, risk, resiliency, and sustainability using case studies to highlight best practices for planning, preparedness, evacuation, management, design, materials, model codes and ordinances. Discussion of tools available for assessing risk, physical, social, and economic vulnerabilities, and how resilient community planning addresses people, buildings, businesses, infrastructure, cultural and natural resources.