Disaster resilience : a national imperative /

One way to reduce the impacts of disasters on the nation and its communities is to invest in enhancing resilience. As defined in this report, resilience is the ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from and more successfully adapt to adverse events. The NRC study committee was asked to (1...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Increasing National Resilience to Hazards and Disasters, National Academies (U.S.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : National Academies Press, 2012.
Temas:
Emergency management > United States.
Emergency management > Law and legislation > United States.
Emergency management > United States > Planning.
Disaster relief > United States.
Disaster relief > Law and legislation > United States.
Disasters > Social aspects > United States.
Preparedness.
Community organization > United States.
Resilience (Personality trait)
Disasters > United States.
Civil defense > United States > Administration.
Civil defense > United States > Organization.
Disaster Planning > organization & administration
Resilience, Psychological
Catastrophes > Aspect social > États-Unis.
État de préparation.
Organisation communautaire > États-Unis.
Résilience (Trait de personnalité)
Catastrophes > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Community organization
Disaster relief
Disaster relief > Law and legislation
Disasters
Disasters > Social aspects
Emergency management
Emergency management > Law and legislation
Preparedness
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:One way to reduce the impacts of disasters on the nation and its communities is to invest in enhancing resilience. As defined in this report, resilience is the ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from and more successfully adapt to adverse events. The NRC study committee was asked to (1) define 'national resilience' and frame the main issues related to increasing resilience in the United States; (2) provide goals, baseline conditions, or performance metrics for national resilience; (3) describe the state of knowledge about resilience to hazards and disasters; and (4) outline additional information, data, gaps, and/or obstacles that need to be addressed to increase the nation's resilience to disasters. The committee was also asked for recommendations about the necessary approaches to elevate national resilience to disasters in the United States. This report 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. A set of six actionable recommendations are described that will help guide the nation toward increasing national resilience from the local community through to state and federal levels.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (244 pages) : color illustrations, color maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780309261500
0309261503
9780309261517
0309261511

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