Disaster Resilience

  • Disaster Resilience: An Integrated Approach (2nd Ed.)
    By Douglas Paton, David Johnston

    New Orleans was, in other words, a poster child for failed mitigation (Freudenburg, Gramling, Laska, & Erikson, 2009). New Orleans is surrounded by water and literally sits in a bowl beneath sea level. Its new housing developments sit ...

  • Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative
    By Policy and Global Affairs, Engineering, Committee on Science

    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.

  • Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative
    By Policy and Global Affairs, Engineering, Committee on Science

    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.

  • Disaster Resilience: A Guide to the Literature
    By National Institute of Standards and Technology, nist

    Although there is a great deal of high-quality information available on resilience-related topics hazard assessment, vulnerability assessment, risk assessment, risk management, and loss estimation as well as disaster resilience itself, ...

  • Disaster Resilience: An Integrated Approach
    By David Moore Johnston, Douglas Paton

    This book will fill the gaps that hamper the effective utilization of the resilience and sustainability concepts within emergency planning: one concerns the lack of a comprehensive review of this multi-level concept; the second relates to ...

  • Disaster Resilience: Social Work Perspectives
    By K. G. Ajeesh, Rosemary T. George, Sajith N. S.

    Disaster Resilience: Social Work Perspectives