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Hurricane Risk Mitigation Blog > Posts > Amanda Staudt’s Nine Principles

12/3/2008

Amanda Staudt’s Nine Principles

December 3rd, 2008
During her panel titled, “Climate Change and Adaptation Strategies,” Amanda Staudt from the National Wildlife Federation itemized nine “Shared Principles for Minimizing Risk from Hurricanes, Storms and Flooding in the Face of Global Warming”:

  1. Remove incentives for development in high risk areas such as floodplains and coastal land vulnerable to sea-level rise. 
  2. Invest in restoration of and increased protection for natural buffers for flooding. 
  3. Reconsider the strategy of levees. 
  4. Take global warming into account in building practices. 
  5. Allow insurance rates to reflect risk exposure. 
  6. Target government assistance to focus on people and not insurance. 
  7. Educate citizens about avoiding risk.  
  8. Reduce global warming pollution to minimize future catastrophic risk. 
  9. Use the best available science for policy making.

David Conrad, Senior Water Resources Specialist, National Wildlife Federation, who spoke during the panel, “Building Codes and Land Use,” adds the following in an on-the-record statement:

"The National Wildlife Federation comes at hazard reduction from this standpoint. By locating people in communities in the highest hazard areas we are undercutting our people for the losses they sustain but also many of these areas are some of the most important environmental areas like wetlands, flood plains, and shoreline areas are enormously valuable for wildlife and often the most important support for fisheries and bird life. Preserving these resources is incredibly important to society for their beauty, for recreation but if we make errors in where we build or build unwisely we pay a double price for both the losses we sustain and the losses that nature sustains at the same time. Wise use of our lands and shorelines and waters is critical to the success of our society."
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