Lessons from six mitigation case studies.

"August 1996"

"This working paper is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. CMS-9408322, "Assessing planning and implementation of hazard mitigation under the Stafford Act." Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this working paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the view of the National Science Foundation"

Includes bibliographical references

This paper distills the findings and recommendations from six case studies into a series of "lessons learned from recent mitigaiton experience." The case studies include both nationally-publicized disasters, such as the 1993 Midwest floods, the 1989 San Francisco and 1994 Los Angeles earthquakes, Hurricane Andrew in south Florida in 1992, Hurricane Bob in New England in 1991, and more garden variety disasters, such as a series of floods, winter storms and tornadoes in Tennessee between 1990 and 1995, and some Northeasters in New England in 1991 and 1992. In each instance, two-member research teams visited the site of the disaster, interviewed federal, state and local mitigation staff members, and collected data from records and published sources