Community disaster recovery and resiliency : exploring global opportunities and challenges
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Community disaster recovery and resiliency : exploring global opportunities and challenges
CRC Press, 2011
- : hardback
Available at 9 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Once again nature's fury has taken a toll in pain, suffering, and lives lost. In recognition of the need for a rapid and appropriate response, CRC Press will donate $5 to the American Red Cross for every copy of Community Disaster Recovery and Resiliency: Exploring Global Opportunities and Challenges sold.
In the past, societies would learn from disasters and move the location of their urban development to safer areas, allowing naturally occurring ecosystems to maintain themselves and for societies to exist symbiotically with the environment. These days, however, it seems that society no longer takes cues from the environment but rather relies on technical advancement to attempt to control and overcome the environment, sometimes with wholly unsuccessful and even catastrophic results.
Emphasizing non-traditional approaches to disaster recovery and rebuilding communities, Community Disaster Recovery and Resiliency: Exploring Global Opportunities and Challenges brings together leading research from top academics and scholars on the different ways various societies have experienced disasters, learned from them, and revised their thinking about building community preparedness and resiliency pre- and post-disaster.
Provides a clear, concise, and up-to-date understanding of best practices for rebuilding community institutions and community development after a disaster
Focuses on integrated solutions for ecological restoration and community development in disaster recovery planning and implementation
Compares and contrasts community rebuilding between different nations at different stages of development, economic power, and stability
Includes case studies that illustrate best practices, integrating the concept of community and community rebuilding for local, national, and international stakeholders
All chapters offer diverse community examples that form a framework for comparing best practices. They focus on integrated solutions for ecological restoration and community development and explain how communities can reduce their vulnerability to disasters and reduce recovery time following a disaster. The book indentifies the opportunities and challenges communities are most likely to face on the road to recovery and supplies the interdisciplinary, social scientific understanding required to effectively address those challenges.
Table of Contents
The Unique Opportunities and Challenges from a Social Scientific Perspective. The Opportunities and Challenges for Building a Community-Based Institutional Infrastructure. Opportunities and Challenges for Social and Cultural Revitalization. Opportunities and Challenges for Economic Recovery. Opportunities and Challenges for Public Health and Safety. Opportunities and Challenges for Housing and Housing Policy. Opportunities and Challenges for Private-Public Partnerships. Opportunities and Challenges for Disaster Mitigation.
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