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Knowing Your Own Community: Student Projects on Vulnerability Assessments

Knowing Your Own Community: Student Projects on Vulnerability Assessments. Sessions 27-29. Sessions’ Objectives. Present CVA plans and completed Societal Analysis portion to class for discussion Participate in discussion and evaluation of each presentation

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Knowing Your Own Community: Student Projects on Vulnerability Assessments

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  1. Knowing Your Own Community: Student Projects on Vulnerability Assessments Sessions 27-29

  2. Sessions’ Objectives • Present CVA plans and completed Societal Analysis portion to class for discussion • Participate in discussion and evaluation of each presentation • Evaluate the usefulness to emergency managers of the data available from the CVAs developed for several communities • Suggest response and mitigation initiatives based on CVA data • Evaluate the research process

  3. Class Presentations • Identification of community: location, geographical boundaries, political boundaries, general demographics • Brief Hazards Identification and Analysis • Societal Analysis (most important section) Population groups and location on map Community level factors: Some examples • Identification of High Risk Areas • Plan for completion of other components of CVA • Description of how CVA would be useful

  4. Evaluation • How well was the map done? • How well was the hazards identification and analysis done? • Were the plans for the other portions of the CVA clear and appropriate? • How complete was the Societal Analysis? • Were vulnerable populations and high risk areas identified? • Were community organizations identified? • Were leaders and key informants identified? • What are the plans for using the CVA for mitigation and response? • Other comments?

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