Core Capability: Risk and Disaster Resilience Assessment

This virtual two-day awareness-level training course provides an overview of the hazards facing coastal communities. Examples of these hazards are short-term events such as high surf, storm surge, and tsunami inundation, or long-term threats from sea level rise and coastal erosion.

The goal of this course is to enable participants to conduct a basic risk assessment of their community by understanding the hazard exposure and vulnerabilities of their coastal community. Specific learning objectives include:

• Describe the hazards and impacts that threaten coastal communities;
• Identify information and warning products describing the risk of coastal hazards to their communities;
• Evaluate the characteristics of the coastal zone that contribute to vulnerability; and
• Discuss the general approaches and tools to mitigate and adapt to coastal hazards.

• Emergency Management
• Governmental Administrative
• Public Health
• Public Works
• Citizen/Community Volunteer
• Transportation
• Education
• Other

REQUIRED:

None