In the summer of 2008, two hurricanes made landfall along the Texas coast causing
billions of dollars in damage. Texas received presidential disaster declarations, which
resulted in the state receiving over $350 million in hazard mitigation funds. Over 500
requests for mitigation projects were submitted to the government from communities
impacted. Not all requested projects could be funded. As a result, those communities that
submitted requests for well-defined mitigation projects were the primary beneficiaries of
the federal mitigation funds. To better understand the factors that characterize a “welldefined”
mitigation project, this study developed an index to rate the completeness and
quality of mitigation project definitions. The study incorporated concepts from research
on quality community planning and from project definition rating methods. The rating
tool consists of detailed descriptions of the project scope elements along with a scoring
method for the completeness and quality of the project’s definition. The rating tool and
the detailed descriptions help to develop a “well-defined” mitigation project definition as
well as to evaluate it. / text
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UTEXAS/oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/ETD-UT-2010-05-1360 |
| Date | 02 November 2010 |
| Creators | Muramatsu, Tadahisa |
| Source Sets | University of Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
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