Tampa – Calah Young, who recently received her Masters in Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been awarded $1,000 by the Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS), for her work in the area of land use planning and natural hazards.
Ms. Young’s winning paper was titled “Creating a Role for Regional Agencies in Hazard Mitigation Planning.” She wrote the paper during her Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Hazard Mitigation Planning Fellowship. She is now employed as a senior planner in the Charleston, West Virginia office of Edwards & Kelcey.
Hers was one of two $1,000 awards given Saturday, November 23rd, at the 2002 Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) conference in Baltimore, Maryland. The other recipient was Skye A. Sieber, who recently received her Masters in Community and Regional Planning from the University of Oregon.
This was the second year IBHS and ACSP teamed up to offer a scholarship award, which is designed to encourage planners to include natural hazards loss reduction in their research and practice.
Land use planning is the process communities use to identify appropriate and compatible uses for land within their jurisdictions. Land use is one element of an overall or comprehensive plan process that may also include transportation, housing, open space, community and social services, natural resources and environmental quality, public safety, and economic development.
IBHS is a national nonprofit engineering, research and communications initiative of the insurance industry. Its mission is to reduce deaths, injuries, property damage, economic losses and human suffering caused by natural disasters.
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