Community Disaster Recovery

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Community Disaster Recovery

Moving from Vulnerability to Resilience

Business ethics and social responsibility

Authors: Deserai A. Crow, Elizabeth A. Albright

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Collection: Organizations and the Natural Environment

Language: English

Published by: Cambridge University Press

Published on: 21st October 2021

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 9 Mb

ISBN: 9781009062404


Disasters and Policy Change

Disasters can serve as focusing events that increase agenda attention related to issues of disaster response, recovery, and preparedness. Increased agenda attention can lead to policy changes and organisational learning. The degree and type of learning that occurs within a government organization after a disaster may matter to policy outcomes related to individual, household, and community-level risks and resilience.

Role of Local Governments

Local governments are the first line of disaster response but also bear the burden of performing long-term disaster recovery and planning for future events. Crow and Albright present the first framework for understanding if, how, and to what effect communities and local governments learn after a disaster strikes.

Community Disaster Recovery

Drawing from analyses conducted over a five-year period following extreme flooding in Colorado, USA, Community Disaster Recovery: Moving from Vulnerability to Resilience presents a framework of community-level learning after disaster and the factors that catalyse policy change towards resilience.

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