Also called: Resilience Planner
Plans how communities can reduce damage from earthquakes, floods, and wildfires before they happen.
You map which neighborhoods are most at risk, write grant applications for FEMA funding, and meet with residents about buyouts or flood walls.
Based on urban and regional planners.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Master's degree, about 6 years after high school. Bachelor's in geography, planning, or geoscience; master's in planning common.
Ways in: 4-year college, Graduate school. Training cost: $60k – $150k.
Majors to look at: Urban Planning, Geography, Geology, Environmental Science.
Growing about average (about 3% over 10 years).
Medium risk for 10 years. AI maps risk and drafts FEMA grant applications; community meetings and tough tradeoffs stay human.
Classes: AP Human Geography, AP Government, Statistics.
Official data: O*NET occupation 19-3051.
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