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The Canadian Hazus User Group meets on the third Wednesday of each month to share knowledge on natural hazard risk assessment and the application of the Hazus loss estimation software in Canada. Natural Resources Canada’s National-Scale Geohazard Risk Project of the Public Safety Geoscience Program supports the forum. Today’s meeting will be facilitated by Malaika Ulmi The meeting materials are posted on Introduction 2

Meet and greet as we connect Presentation: Risk-Based Land-Use Guide: Safe use of land based on hazard risk management – Bert Struik, GSC, SFU and CRHNet Training, resources and events Round table Questions and Discussion Agenda 3

EMI courses and at Updated virtual and EMI course flyer at Esri online courses search for Hazushttp://training.esri.com/ Training 4 COURSE NUMBER COURSE TITLEDATES E0174Hazus-MH for EarthquakeNovember 16-19, 2015 E0313Basic Hazus-MHDecember 7-10, 2015 E0176Hazus-MH for Floodplain ManagersDecember 14-17, 2015 E0317 Comprehensive Data Management for Hazus-MH January 4-7, 2016 E0296Application of Hazus-MH for Risk Assessment March 21-24, 2016

5 Resources Order a copy of Hazus Canada 2.1, see upcoming events, download and access resources including the Hazus HotZone newsletter, get past and future meeting material, find events, ask a Hazus question, and add content FEMA Hazus User Group calls on iTunes, search Hazus Community, or join calls by requesting add from and LinkedIn for Canadian and US HUG groups and resources Hazus solutions page: communities/hazus-help-desk-resource-and-solutions-pagewww.fema.gov/protecting-our- communities/hazus-help-desk-resource-and-solutions-page

6 Resources ICLR publications and Friday Forums Global best practices: and UN ISDR Recent webinar “Communicating Cascadia’s Earthquake Risk”: issues/webinars/communicating-cascadias-earthquake-risk issues/webinars/communicating-cascadias-earthquake-risk Archived webinars of the American Planning Association, including “Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience”, “The Role of Mitigation in Post-Disaster Recovery” and “Hazards Planning and Resilience: The Elected Official’s Perspective”: change

7 Resources Mitigation Best Practices – A FEMA portfolio: Newly released 2015 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions for New Buildings and Other Structures: library/assets/documents/107646www.fema.gov/media- library/assets/documents/ Rockefeller Foundation 100 Resilient Cities third call:

8 Resources Caring for Older Adults in Disasters Curriculum from National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health: ICLR Quick Response Grant Program: Disaster Visualization Map: NRCan and DNV Hazus case study and guidance publications: and Best Practices in Local Mitigation from US:

9 Events Annual National Roundtable on Disaster Risk Reduction, November 2-3, 2015, Calgary, AB Annual Canadian Risk and Hazards Network Symposium, Calgary, AB, November 4-6, 2015, International Association of Emergency Managers Annual Conference, Clark County, Nevada, November 13-18, Association of Healthcare Emergency Preparedness Professionals Annual Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, November 17-18, Emergency Preparedness and Business Continuity Conference, Vancouver, BC, November 17-19, 2015, Hazus Users Conference, Atlanta, GA, December 9-11, 2015,

10 Events Northern European Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark, December 9-11, Improving the Seismic Performance of Existing Buildings and Other Structures, San Francisco, California, December 10-12, Association of State Floodplain Managers Annual Conference, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 19-24, 2016,

Introduce yourself Any news, projects, ideas, suggestions, upcoming presentations or conferences of interest … Roundtable 11

12 Presentation: Risk-Based Land-Use Guide: Safe use of land based on hazard risk management – Bert Struik, GSC, SFU and CRHNet

Next CanHUG meeting is November 18, 2015 See you then! Please if there is a speaker or topic you would like featured in future. Thank you 13