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
Table of Contents:
  • Summary
  • Introduction
  • Evaluation of existing resilience measurement efforts
  • Ground truthing how communities measure resilience
  • For communities : actions for building and measuring community resilience
  • For the Gulf Research Program : ways forward for building and measuring community resilience in the Gulf Region
  • References
  • Appendixes

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