SHC Output 10.4: Impacts from Environmental and Natural Disasters
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EPA programs and the communities they serve must be able to identify expected impacts from natural or manmade perturbations, and to integrate that information into effective, cost-efficient plans and actions for resilience, adaption, and risk reduction. SHC Output 10.4 will identify critical information and develop approaches to help communities assess their vulnerabilities to hazards, especially those related to extreme event-related, unintended releases of toxic chemicals from contaminated sites. Four products in Output 10.4 focus on extreme event impacts on sites/neighborhoods, and cascading effects on human health and ecosystem services.