START researcher Kathleen Tierney, the director of the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado, will will host a Web chat with the National City Network describing how locally elected officials can better deal with disasters in their cities through better forms of preparation.
The session--entitled Natural Hazard Mitigation Saves: An Independent Study to Assess the Future Savings from Natural Hazard Mitigation Activities"--will be held on Wednesday, May 31, 2006, at 4:00 p.m. EDT.
Additional information is available from the National City Network (www.nationalcitynetwork.org).