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2. Hazard and Risk Assessment
Pages 13-16

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... and other relevant federal agencies to ensure that adequate hazard and risk assessments within their boundaries are produced; · states, with assistance from the federal government, develop mechanisms for providing hazard and risk information to local decision-makers; and · the federal government continue to support physical, biological, and social science research on hazard and risk assessments as well as methods for making this information available to decision-makers .
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... Further understanding of the physical and biological processes that cause hazardous events such as the solid earth processes that generate earthquakes or the ecosystem changes that cause wildfires and outbreaks of insect pests - would contribute to more accurate and useful hazard assessments and to improved prediction capabilities. Risk assessments could be enhanced by research on how a single hazardous event can trigger a sequence of disasters.
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... NATURAL HAZARDS SEQUENCE A sequence of disastrous results can foe triggered] by a sing/se hazardous event.
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... Flexible and resilient, youngsters are often eager volunteers for comm? ~nity-aidprojects.
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