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AWR-379 Coastal Hazard Awareness
This one-day awareness-level training course aims to increase the awareness of the hazards facing coastal communities and basic strategies to reduce the risk to those hazards. This course provides training on the basic science of, assessment of, and preparedness for natural hazards and risks that uniquely affect coastal communities. Examples of these hazards are short term events such as high surf, storm surge, and tsunami inundation, or long term threats from sea level rise and coastal erosion
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Disciplines Emergency Management Governmental Administrative Public Health Public Works Citizen/Community Volunteer Transportation Other Education
Course Objective
The goal of this course is to enable participants to conduct a basic risk assessment of their community by understanding the hazard exposure and vulnerabilities of their coastal community
Specific learning objectives include: Describe the hazards and impacts that threaten coastal communities; Identify information and warning products describing the risk of coastal hazards to their communities; Evaluate the characteristics of the coastal zone that contribute to vulnerability; and Discuss the general approaches and tools to mitigate and adapt to coastal hazards
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