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Matthew Malecha: Well
most communities will have

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a comprehensive plan,
hazard mitigation plans

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parks and recreation plans,
capital improvement plans

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and unfortunately, what happens is,
most of the times these plans wont

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communicate well enough.

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The project we're working on is Costal
Vulnerability, with Dr. Phil Berke.

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Phil Berke: Our end goal in the
current project is for communities

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and the various local agencies
to be able to work together

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in a more coordinated
and integrated fashion.

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To help them build higher quality,
stronger, mitigation plans.

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We have to have experts at translating
the knowledge to practice.

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And Dr. Cooper and his group,

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in Texas Target Communities
are very good at that.

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Dr. John T. Cooper, Jr: We start
by asking folks in the community

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what issues, they
are concerned with.

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And then we take the
things that they tell us,

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and then we try to
apply it to research.

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And then from there we
are learning together.

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Because I believe in the end, their
contributions, the local knowledge,

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the indigenous knowledge,
enhances the research.

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Phil Berke: They want us to do the
good science, but there asking that

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we translate that knowledge
we're generating to action.

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To see the end user, who are
the front lines, their the boots.

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And we're trying to translate it so they
can use it on the ground level.

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Jaekyung Lee: My focus in this
project is measuring how

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vulnerability will be used in its
12 different socioeconomic indicators.

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Siyu Yu: We are developing them
into four or five categories

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such as land development and
capital improvement and

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post disaster improvements.

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David Salazar: I think
its very important

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to have people from the community.

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They actually take ownership and
feel that they're a part of a planning

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for their future generations,

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our future generations.

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