Table of Contents

Mitigating natural hazards - a national challenge; evolving mitigation policy directions; Florida after Hurricane Andrew; Missouri after the mid-West floods of 1993; California after the Loma Prieta and Northridge earthquakes; Massachusetts after Hurricane Bob and other storms; Tennessee after a series of floods and storms; state hazard mitigation plans - falling short of their potential; the hazard mitigation grant programme - scattered spending; state implementation of natural disaster mitigation policy; ethical guidelines for hazard mitigation; natural hazard mitigation - planning for sustainable communities.

About the Author

Timothy Beatley is the Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities at the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where he has taught for over twenty-five years. His primary teaching and research interests are in environmental planning and policy, with a special emphasis on coastal and natural hazards planning, environmental values and ethics, and biodiversity conservation. He has published extensively in these areas, including the following books: Ethical Land Use; Habitat Conservation Planning: Endangered Species and Urban Growth; Natural Hazard Mitigation; and An Introduction to Coastal Zone Management. In recent years much of his research and writing has been focused on the subject of sustainable communities and creative strategies by which cities and towns can reduce their ecological footprints, while at the same time becoming more livable and equitable places. His books that explore these issues include Biophilic Cities, Resilient Cities, and Blue Urbanism (Island Press). David Brower is a faculty member in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.