AGENDA

Objectives are to better understand:

  • How effective are the current practices and policies at the national and local scales in ensuring the distribution and assumption of risk in equitable ways?
  • If disasters trend towards greater frequency or greater costs, how would current policies ensure equitable assumption and distribution of increased risk?
  • How would current policies need to be changed to allow for equitable distribution or assumption of increased risk?  What, if any, new policies would be needed to ensure equitable assumption and distribution of increased risk?

9:00 am
Welcome, Opening Remarks
Ellis Stanley, Chair of the Disasters Roundtable

9:15 am
Opening Session
Sharing Natural Disaster Risk: National and Local Challenges and the DC Example
Gerry Galloway, University of Maryland

10-11:15 am
Panel One: National Policies for Risk-Prone Areas

  1. In terms of addressing risk in equitable ways; how do national policies work well, what improvements are needed, and what are the gaps and opportunities that need to be addressed?
  2. What are the key federal policies that get enacted in risk prone areas?

Panelists: NFIP, fire policy, Presidential Policy Directive 8, earthquake policy

Panelist one: Howard Kunreuther, Professor, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Panelist two: Donald Lumpkins, Executive Director, PPD-8 Program Executive Office, FEMA
Panelist three: Alex Dornstauder, Deputy Chief, Office of Homeland Security and Contingency Operations, USACE
Panelist four: Frank Nutter, Reinsurance Association of America

Q/A and Discussion
Moderator: Andy Bruzewicz, DR member

11:15-11:30 am
Break

11:30-12:45 pm
Panel Two: State and Local Management of Risk-Prone Communities

  1. How do your local communities use the national policies described by Panel One? What works really well, what doesn't?
  2. Are there additional policies that are drawn on in risk prone areas? What are they?
  3. How do these policies work under increased risk scenarios?

3-4 panelists: local and state representatives
Panelist One: Chauncia Willis: City of Tampa, Office of Emergency Management
Panelist Two: Mark Benthien, Southern California Earthquake Center
Panelist Three: Ronald Campbell, Emergency Management Coordinator, University of North Carolina
Panelist Four: Eric Carter, Fort Worth Office of Emergency Management

Q/A and Discussion
Moderator: Juan Ortiz, DR member

12:45-2:00 pm
Lunch on your own

2:00-3:00 pm
Panel Three: Future Needs - How to Coexist with Increased Risk

  1. How would current policies need to be changed to allow for equitable distribution or assumption of increased risk?
  2. What, if any, new policies would be needed to ensure equitable assumption and distribution of increased risk?
  3. What kind of framework is needed to better integrate national policies and local needs under scenarios of increased risk?

3-4 panelists
Panelist One: Claire Rubin, Claire B. Rubin & Associates
Panelist Two: Debra Ballen, Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety
Panelist Three: Gerry Galloway, University of Maryland
Panelist Four: Darrell Darnell, Senior Fellow, George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute

Q/A and Discussion on roles and responsibilities
Moderator: David Kaufman, DR member

3:00- 3:30 pm
Moderated Open Mic Session

  1. What do you think the main messages of this workshop are?
  2. What are key questions that weren't addressed during the workshop?
  3. Next steps

Moderator: Ellis Stanley, Chair of the Disasters Roundtable

3:30 pm
Closing remarks
Ellis Stanley, Chair of the Disasters Roundtable