TY - JOUR
T1 - Comparing predisaster mitigation grant spending with postdisaster assistance spending
T2 - Are mitigation investments saving federal dollars?
AU - Renken, Katharina
AU - Jackman, Andrea M.
AU - Beruvides, Mario G.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Weston Medical Publishing. All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/8
Y1 - 2020/8
N2 - This work is a companion paper to “Quantifying the Relationship Between Predisaster Mitigation Spending and Major Disaster Declarations for US States and Territories.” Mitigation is a relatively new undertaking, especially for local jurisdictions, within the United States disaster policy. The Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 (DMA 2000) requires local jurisdictions to plan for and implement mitigative strategies in order to access federal grant funding options for emergency management. After DMA 2000 went into effect in the mid-2000s, a supporting study by the Multi-Hazard Mitigation Council (MMC 2005) found that on average, mitigation projects yielded a benefit-cost ratio of 4:1 at the local level.1 This paper evaluates and compares predisaster mitigation spending and postdisaster assistance spending at the state and FEMA Regional levels, hypothesizing that as mitigation spending increases, postdisaster spending should decrease. The results however indicate the opposite, with most states showing increasing in both types of spending over time.
AB - This work is a companion paper to “Quantifying the Relationship Between Predisaster Mitigation Spending and Major Disaster Declarations for US States and Territories.” Mitigation is a relatively new undertaking, especially for local jurisdictions, within the United States disaster policy. The Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 (DMA 2000) requires local jurisdictions to plan for and implement mitigative strategies in order to access federal grant funding options for emergency management. After DMA 2000 went into effect in the mid-2000s, a supporting study by the Multi-Hazard Mitigation Council (MMC 2005) found that on average, mitigation projects yielded a benefit-cost ratio of 4:1 at the local level.1 This paper evaluates and compares predisaster mitigation spending and postdisaster assistance spending at the state and FEMA Regional levels, hypothesizing that as mitigation spending increases, postdisaster spending should decrease. The results however indicate the opposite, with most states showing increasing in both types of spending over time.
KW - Disaster management
KW - Emergency management
KW - Hazard mitigation
KW - Mitigation
KW - Postdisaster assistance
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85089711155&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5055/jem.2020.0479
DO - 10.5055/jem.2020.0479
M3 - Article
C2 - 32804402
AN - SCOPUS:85089711155
SN - 1543-5865
VL - 8
SP - 349
EP - 354
JO - Journal of Emergency Management
JF - Journal of Emergency Management
IS - 4
ER -