1. Map Your Hazards! Combining Natural Hazards with Societal Issues
Introduction to Stakeholders: Assessing Hazards, Risks, and Vulnerabilities for Mitigation Strategies
Map Your Hazards! Combining Natural Hazards with Societal Issues

2. Who are your local stakeholders?
What is a stakeholder?
For natural hazards or disasters, a stakeholder is:
Any person, organization or group who can become affected by a particular hazard or disaster event
Who are your local stakeholders?

3. Examples of local stakeholders
Emergency responders
Emergency managers
City planners
Insurance companies
Religious groups
Businesses
Domestic shelters
School districts
Preschools
Individual households
College students
Retirement communities
Neighborhood groups
Farmers and ranchers
Utility companies
Construction companies
Transportation services
Social service agency (Red Cross, resource allocation)
Why is it important to identify your stakeholders?

4. Importance of identifying your stakeholders
Information and types of purposed mitigation should be targeted to the specific stakeholder addressed
Enhances receptivity and ability to take actions toward becoming more resilient
For mitigation strategies, why is it important for stakeholders to understand hazards, risks, and vulnerabilities?

5. Importance of demonstrating hazards, risks, and vulnerabilities for mitigation strategies
Often, hazards are exacerbated by human activity…
Urban concentration and sprawl
Weathering or instability of infrastructures (e.g. corrosion of metals, earthquake resilient buildings)
Land use (e.g. fertilizers, location of buildings)
Quality of water supply
What other examples of human activity and hazard interactions can you think of?

6. Compare information and mitigation strategies that would be important for . . .
Elementary School Students
Utility companies
Elementary school students - Public domain image from Werner Substation - Public domain image from WinterCity296 WinterforceMedia.
Elementary school students
Substation in Canada

7. Each group gets a stakeholder
Frame results and suggested mitigation for your assigned stakeholder
Keep in mind that these stakeholders may be present for your presentations!