On July 11, over 40 attendees of the 2021 Natural Hazards Workshop participated in NDPTC’s Natural Hazards Awareness for Community Leaders (AWR-310). The course was taught by Allison Hardin, CFM, Director of Planning and Development for the City of Conway, who has extensive experience in regional and urban planning, GIS mapping and coordination, floodplain …
The National Disaster Preparedness Training Center (NDPTC) is excited to announce the development of a new course to address the gap in using land use planning solutions to reduce risk efforts to mitigate hazards – MGT-474 Mitigating Hazards with Land Use Solutions. Where and how land is used and developed can greatly influence a …
NDPTC’s Executive Director, Dr. Karl Kim, recently co-authored with lead author Dr. Bruce Houghton, Science Director of NDPTC and creator of the AWR-233 Volcanic Crises Awareness course, a research article titled “Land, lava, and disaster create a social dilemma after the 2018 eruption of Kīlauea volcano” that was published in the Journal Nature …
