Also called: Mitigation Specialist, Resilience Planner
Finds ways to reduce disaster damage before it happens, like elevating homes or building flood walls.
Mitigation planners map flood, earthquake, and wildfire risks, write the plans that make towns eligible for FEMA money, and manage projects like buying out homes that flood repeatedly. Climate change has made this work grow.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in planning, geography, or emergency management.
Ways in: 4-year college, Graduate school. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Urban Planning, Geography, Emergency Management, Civil Engineering.
Growing faster than average. Approximate.
Medium risk for 10 years. GIS and AI risk models map hazards fast and draft plans; community meetings and project choices stay human.
Classes: Geography / GIS, AP Environmental Science, Statistics, English composition.
Official data: O*NET occupation 19-3051.
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