Characterizing multi-hazard exposure for lands, assets, resources, and people associated with the U.S. Department of the Interior
Abstract
The Department of the Interior (DOI) protects and manages the natural resources and cultural heritage of the United States, provides scientific and other information about those resources, and honors trust responsibilities or special commitments to American Indian, Alaska Native, and Insular and affiliated island communities. Significant numbers of people live, work, go to school, or recreate on lands managed or administered by the DOI. Consequently, the DOI has an obligation and a requirement to understand the risks posed by various hazards to its lands, facilities, people, revenues, and resources.
The U.S. Geological Survey and DOI Office of Emergency Management are collaborating to assess the hazard exposure of DOI staff, visitors, concessionaires and contractors, tribal communities, facilities, infrastructure, land, natural resources, and cultural resources. Geospatial tools and data are being used to visualize and quantify spatial variations in the exposure of these populations, assets, and resources across the U.S. to a wide array of meteorological, geophysical, wildland fire, and hydrological hazards, as well as technological accidents, adversarial actions, and threats to human and environmental health. The project has resulted in the development of several national-level hazard datasets that previously did not exist and has laid the foundation for a national hazards atlas that aggregates data from multiple federal agencies. This information provides a nationally consistent foundation of hazard-exposure data and analysis that supports DOI officials' needs to make informed and strategic decisions about how to manage and mitigate risk, respond to incidents, allocate resources, and develop plans and capabilities. Information gleaned from this analysis also identifies gaps, needs, and requirements for additional national, regional, and local studies to further characterize vulnerability, risk, and mitigation opportunities.- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018AGUFMNH52B..05P
- Keywords:
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- 4306 Multihazards;
- NATURAL HAZARDSDE: 4313 Extreme events;
- NATURAL HAZARDSDE: 4326 Exposure;
- NATURAL HAZARDSDE: 4333 Disaster risk analysis and assessment;
- NATURAL HAZARDS