Cho đến nay, chính phủ liên bang đã thực hiện một cách tiếp cận không phù hợp để đối phó với các vấn đề và tác động của biến đổi khí hậu. Mặc dù nó đã cung cấp hỗ trợ đáng kể để điều tra và phân tích các vấn đề xung quanh biến đổi khí hậu, nó đã được ít tích cực trong việc thúc đẩy các chính sách và chương trình cụ thể giải quyết các tác động của biến đổi khí hậu. Thay vào đó, một số chương trình liên bang được thiết kế để hỗ trợ. | 3 Federal Mitigation Programs Collateral Stimulus to Reducing the Impacts of Climate Change in our Communities INTRODUCTION To date the federal government has taken an inconsistent approach to dealing with the issues and impacts of climate change. Although it has provided considerable support to investigating and analyzing the issues surrounding climate change it has been less aggressive in promoting policies and programs that specifically address the impacts of climate change. Instead certain federal programs designed to support risk reduction or mitigation of natural hazards when implemented have demonstrated collateral and unintended benefits in addressing the impacts of climate change on our communities. These programs clearly illustrate that implementing certain mitigation actions in a community will reduce the impacts of future disasters aggravated by climate change. Federal policy makers have not promoted the connection of these mitigation programs as a potential remedy to climate change. This oversight needs to be corrected. The fact that climate change adds to the severity and frequency of natural disasters provides additional impetus for taking mitigation actions before the next disaster. And an equally compelling case can be made that the mitigation actions taken now will impede the impact of climate change in the future. Making this two-for-one case to 51 2009 by Taylor Francis Group LLC GLOBAL WARMING NATURAL HAZARDS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT community leaders makes economic sense and provides coverage for community leaders that they are addressing the more immediate and politically salient issue of climate change. The intent of this chapter is to discuss several current and past community-based federal mitigation programs administered by the Federal Emergency Management Administration FEMA now a part of the Department of Homeland Security DHS and their collateral influences on reducing the impact of climate change. The programs that will be examined .
