PRIMR Takeaways

Encourage convergence across disciplines and sectors: To generate cross-boundary, interdisciplinary relationships, ideas, and goals that address hazard and disaster needs, and this discussion will encourage ways that higher education can leverage its untapped potential across research, education, and engagement for societal resilience.

Take Away Goals

• bring disciplines together
• build relationships and have networking time
• bridge disciplinary silos

Actionable solutions: To share and walk away with best practices, new information, and specifically actionable information to prioritize and focus their efforts.

Take Away Goals

• translate knowledge into action
• share best practices
• address specific goals of equity, vulnerable populations, special considerations

Understand and grow to the challenge of future hazards: To prepare to meet the challenges of hazards and disaster by acknowledging the complexity of hazards and societal changes, learn from the past to do better, prepare for cascading and multiple disasters, and integrate hazards needs into all community life.

Whole community, equity and justice: To acknowledge disparities in society that are expounded during disasters and how resilience is not one-size-fits-all.

Take Away Goals

• understand the changing nature of hazard risks
• highlight lessons learned from previous disasters
• realize the impact of cascading / compounding / concurrent disasters
• integrate hazard planning into daily life