Building and measuring community resilience : actions for communities and the Gulf Research Program /

The frequency and severity of disasters over the last few decades have presented unprecedented challenges for communities across the United States. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina exposed the complexity and breadth of a deadly combination of existing community stressors, aging infrastructure, and a power...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Measuring Community Resilience
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, DC : National Academies Press, [2019]
Series:Consensus study report.
Subjects:
Gulf Research Program.
Gulf Research Program
2005
Disaster relief > Gulf States.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 > Social conditions.
Natural disasters > Gulf States.
Communities.
Natural disasters.
Social history.
Relief Work
Natural Disasters
Social Conditions
Resilience, Psychological
Secours aux victimes de catastrophes > États du Golfe (États-Unis)
Ouragan Katrina, 2005 > Conditions sociales.
Communauté.
Catastrophes naturelles.
Histoire sociale.
Catastrophes naturelles > États du Golfe (États-Unis)
natural disasters.
social history.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Social history
Communities
Disaster relief
Natural disasters
Social conditions
United States
United States > Gulf States
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:The frequency and severity of disasters over the last few decades have presented unprecedented challenges for communities across the United States. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina exposed the complexity and breadth of a deadly combination of existing community stressors, aging infrastructure, and a powerful natural hazard. In many ways, the devastation of Hurricane Katrina was a turning point for understanding and managing disasters, as well as related plan making and policy formulation. It brought the phrase "community resilience" into the lexicon of disaster management. Building and Measuring Community Resilience: Actions for Communities and the Gulf Research Program summarizes the existing portfolio of relevant or related resilience measurement efforts and notes gaps and challenges associated with them. It describes how some communities build and measure resilience and offers four key actions that communities could take to build and measure their resilience in order to address gaps identified in current community resilience measurement efforts. This report also provides recommendations to the Gulf Research Program to build and measure resilience in the Gulf of Mexico region.
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 PDF file (xviii, 133 pages)) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780309489720
0309489725
9780309489737
0309489733
9780309489751
030948975X

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