The agencies of the SNDR, through expanded and enhanced coordination, communication, information systems, education, research, and public policy options, are working to impact the policy environments of local jurisdictions across the Nation and throughout the world. With this deeper understanding, decisionmakers will be able to balance these forces, which change with time, place, and circumstances, and to seize windows of opportunity to adopt policies and professional practices that will benefit their community. New and cost-effective remedial measures. Interdisciplinary approaches to mitigation, which integrate all available knowledge and benefit from the continuous flow of new knowledge from ongoing research and the interaction of researchers and practitioners. Efficient transfer of knowledge and technology among and between Federal, State, academic, industrial, and public partners across the United States with counterparts worldwide.
Projects involving the private sector are an integral part of the activities of many SNDR agencies.
Hazard information centers, educational forums, advisory participation of the user community, Federal assistance programs, preparedness simulation exercises, and publication and dissemination of resource materials are essential to involve the private sector and local decisionmakers in disaster reduction. Reducing losses caused by natural hazards requires that hazard information, risk assessments, and warnings be transferred to the user community, including various State and local agencies, private industry, and the public, and that the user community be actively involved in the creation and implementation of strategies for mitigation. The National Mitigation Strategy will not only solidify existing partnership arrangements with constituencies but, more importantly, will also forge new partnerships beyond the traditional allies in the emergency management community. Working partnerships with architects, lenders, insurers, economic development agencies, builders, and others will ensure that all possible incentives and activities that encourage individuals, businesses, and State and local governments to implement mitigation strategies have been addressed and explored. The All-Hazards Radio Network, proposed as an enhancement of the Weather Radio Network, will provide rapid dissemination of hazard warnings to local communities, especially critical facilities such as schools and hospitals.