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 ...
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.
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.
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, ...
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