Categories:
 Emergency Property Protective Measures (3) - Programs that provide nonstructural measures such as plywood, sandbags etc., that are designed to temporarily secure property in preparation for an impending disaster.
- Flood Plain Relocation Programs (0)
- A program administered by state goverments and funded by FEMA which permanently removes inhabited structures from high risk areas in order to restore flood plains and reduce the loss of life and property when flooding occurs.
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- Government Disaster Insurance Programs (1)
- Programs available through federal, state or local governments that issue special policies which protect people from the loss of personal dwellings or other structures and their contents due to special hazards such as floods, crop failures, etc.
- Property Retrofitting Services (1)
- Programs that make permanent structural changes to strengthen homes, apartment buildings and business property to help them better withstand the forces of earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes and other destructive events.
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Links:
 Applied Technology Council - The Applied Technology Council (ATC) is a nonprofit, tax-exempt corporation
established in 1971 through the efforts of the Structural Engineers Association of
California. ATC's mission is to assist the design practitioner in structural
engineering (and related design specialty fields such as soils, wind, and
earthquake) in the task of keeping abreast of and effectively using technological
developments. ATC also identifies and encourages needed research and develops
consensus opinions on structural engineering issues in a nonproprietary format.
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Asian Urban Disaster Mitigation Program (AUDMP) - The Asian Urban Disaster Mitigation Program (AUDMP) is a four year program designed to respond to the need of safer
cities. The ultimate goal of the program is to reduce the natural disaster vulnerability of urban populations, infrastructure, lifeline
facilities, and shelter in targeted cities in Asia.
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Disaster Prevention Research Institute - The Disaster Prevention Research Institute was established in 1951 in order to
carry out scientific and engineering studies for the prevention of disasters caused
by natural forces. The Institute commenced its work at laboratories on the
University campus and in the Abuyama Seismological Observatory in Takatsu- ki
City, with three research sections and sixteen research staff members. At present
the scale of its organization has been enlarged so that it has 16 research sections
and 11 attached facilities, while more than one hundred research staff members are
working in the laboratories and observatories.
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Project Impact - FEMA - Breaking the disaster-rebuild-disaster cycle in the
United States is FEMA's top priority. Project Impact is
designed to help you and your community build a
disaster resistant community. It is intended to help you
"mitigate" or protect your community, the residents,
organizations, businesses, infrastructure, and the
stability and growth of its economy as much as possible
against the impact of natural disasters BEFORE they happen.
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