Man-Made Hazards and Land Use Planning: The Risks Nobody Puts on the Map
Part 3 of 5 in our August series on Public Safety and Hazard Mitigation in the Comprehensive Plan. When most people hear “hazard mitigation,” they think of floods, tornadoes, wildfires, or winter storms. Those are real and familiar risks, especially in rural communities. But communities also face hazards created by the systems we build, the…