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Disaster Resilience - A National Imperative (Paperback)
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No person or place is immune from disasters or disaster-related
losses. Infectious disease outbreaks, acts of terrorism, social
unrest, or financial disasters in addition to natural hazards can
all lead to large-scale consequences for the nation and its
communities. Communities and the nation thus face difficult fiscal,
social, cultural, and environmental choices about the best ways to
ensure basic security and quality of life against hazards,
deliberate attacks, and disasters. Beyond the unquantifiable costs
of injury and loss of life from disasters, statistics for 2011
alone indicate economic damages from natural disasters in the
United States exceeded $55 billion, with 14 events costing more
than a billion dollars in damages each. One way to reduce the
impacts of disasters on the nation and its communities is to invest
in enhancing resilience-the ability to prepare and plan for,
absorb, recover from and more successfully adapt to adverse events.
Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative addresses the broad
issue of increasing the nation's resilience to disasters. This book
defines "national resilience", describes the state of knowledge
about resilience to hazards and disasters, and frames the main
issues related to increasing resilience in the United States. It
also provide goals, baseline conditions, or performance metrics for
national resilience and outlines additional information, data,
gaps, and/or obstacles that need to be addressed to increase the
nation's resilience to disasters. Additionally, the book's
authoring committee makes recommendations about the necessary
approaches to elevate national resilience to disasters in the
United States. Enhanced resilience allows better anticipation of
disasters and better planning to reduce disaster losses-rather than
waiting for an event to occur and paying for it afterward. Disaster
Resilience confronts the topic of how to increase the nation's
resilience to disasters through a vision of the characteristics of
a resilient nation in the year 2030. Increasing disaster resilience
is an imperative that requires the collective will of the nation
and its communities. Although disasters will continue to occur,
actions that move the nation from reactive approaches to disasters
to a proactive stance where communities actively engage in
enhancing resilience will reduce many of the broad societal and
economic burdens that disasters can cause. Table of Contents Front
Matter Summary 1 The Nation's Agenda for Disaster Resilience 2 The
Foundation for Building a Resilient Nation: Understanding,
Managing, and Reducing Disaster Risks 3 Making the Case for
Resilience Investments: The Scope of the Challenge 4 Measuring
Progress Toward Resilience 5 Building Local Capacity and
Accelerating Progress: Resilience from the Bottom Up 6 The
Landscape of Resilience PolicyResilience from the Top Down 7
Putting the Pieces Together: Linking Communities and Governance to
Guide National Resilience 8 Building a More Resilient Nation: The
Path Forward Appendix A: Committee and Staff Biographical
Information Appendix B: Committee Meetings and Public Agendas
Appendix C: Essential Hazard Monitoring Networks
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