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Local Disaster Resilience - Administrative and Political Perspectives (Paperback)
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Local Disaster Resilience - Administrative and Political Perspectives (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Policy
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Since 2000, the Gulf Coast states - Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Alabama, and Florida - have experienced a series of hurricanes,
multiple floods and severe storms, and one oil spill. These
disasters have not only been numerous but also devastating.
Response to and recovery from these unprecedented disasters has
been fraught with missteps in management. In efforts to avoid
similar failures in the future, government agencies and policy
practitioners have looked to recast emergency management, and
community resilience has emerged as a way for to better prevent,
manage, and recover from these disasters. How is disaster
resilience perceived by local government officials and translated
into their disaster response and recovery efforts? Ashley D. Ross
systematically explores and measures disaster resilience across the
Gulf Coast to gain a better understanding of how resilience in
concept is translated into disaster management practices,
particularly on the local government level. In doing so, she
presents disaster resilience theory to the Gulf Coast using
existing data to create county-level baseline indicators of Gulf
Coast disaster resilience and an original survey of county
emergency managers and elected municipal officials in 60 counties
and 120 municipalities across the Gulf States. The findings of the
original survey measure the disaster resilience perceptions held by
local government officials, which are examined to identify
commonalities and differences across the set of cases. Additional
analyses compare these perceptions to objective baseline indicators
of disaster resilience to assess how perceptions align with
resilience realities. Local Disaster Resilience not only fills a
critical gap in the literature by applying existing theories and
models to a region that has experienced the worst disasters the
United States has faced in the past decade, but it can also be used
as a tool to advance our knowledge of disasters in an
interdisciplinary manner.
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