External Input External Input Partnerships among Federal, State, and local governments and the private sector are essential to successful natural disaster reduction. Assessment efforts need such partnerships, both to develop accurate estimates of vulnerability and impact and to ensure that those who will be affected by natural disasters will contribute to the needed response.
Mitigation is necessarily the sum of many individual actions.
Because most of the assets at risk are non-Federal, most of the needed actions reside in these other sectors. Because warnings and dissemination necessarily involve both the giving and the receiving of information, partnership is therefore fundamental. 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.