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Long-Term Community Recovery from Natural Disasters (Hardcover)
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Long-Term Community Recovery from Natural Disasters (Hardcover)
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Today, governmental efforts at long-term community recovery from a
natural disaster consist primarily of rebuilding the physical
artifact of the community. This entails reestablishing vital
community services and infrastructure and creating housing to
replace that which has been lost. While restoring the built
environment of a disaster area is essential, alone it is not
sufficient to achieve complete recovery. Long-Term Community
Recovery from Natural Disasters presents what the authors have
learned over two decades from more than two dozen community
disasters in and outside the United States. Based on their
experiences, they provide a set of practical, cost-effective steps
for both reducing the consequences of extreme natural hazard events
on communities and for facilitating community recovery. To achieve
long-term recovery, it is essential that we understand how
communities develop and/or decay in the absence of an extreme
natural hazard event. Then, by recognizing how these events disrupt
"normal" development and change, we can determine which parts of
the community have to become reestablished or made more functional
so that the community can achieve long-term viability. The authors
explain how this appreciation of community dynamics and the
consequences of extreme natural hazard events enables us to
identify those critical points for policy intervention at
appropriate levels of government. The combined practical and
philosophical insight presented in this book will be valuable not
only to policy makers but to scholars as well.
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