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Case Studies in Disaster Recovery. A Volume in the Disaster and Emergency Management: Case Studies in Adaptation and Innovation Series

  • Book

  • December 2022
  • Elsevier Science and Technology
  • ID: 4768530

Case Studies in Disaster Recovery, the initial release in the Disaster and Emergency Management: Case Studies in Adaptation and Innovation series, explores recovery from a number of perspectives: household, community and nation. Chapters cover the concept of social vulnerability to explain/predict recovery outcomes, consider broader themes of sustainability, assess community vulnerability and capacity, and explore the challenges associated with long-term recovery and disaster case management. Cases explored illustrate the ways in which communities and governments used the window of opportunity after a disaster to make changes that reduce future risk and vulnerability. Included cases illustrate the diversity of change realized in communities following disasters.

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Table of Contents

I. Series Introduction, Series Editors Jean Slick and Jane Kushma

II. Disaster Recovery, Jane Kushma, PhD a. State-of-the-Practice Knowledge and Competencies (as associated with the specific dimension of practice that is the focus of the text) b. Overview of Cases

III. Thematic Organization of Cases 2-4 groupings of cases

IV. Volume Conclusion, Jane Kushma, PhD Topics Covered: Long-term disaster recovery Disaster case management Recovery as tool for reducing future risk vulnerability Cyclone/Hurricane Flood Landslide Post-earthquake disaster recovery

Authors

Kushma, Jane Jane Kushma is Professor of Emergency Management and Director of the Doctoral Program at Jacksonville State University, in Jacksonville, Alabama. In 2012, she received an Academic Recognition Award from the International Association for Emergency Managers. Before joining academia, she spent many years with the American Red Cross national headquarters where she coordinated the organization's catastrophic disaster planning efforts. She continues to serve on national disaster management boards for the American Red Cross, including the Disaster Cycle Process Reengineering Team (Preparedness), and the Disaster Services Program Manager Certification Board, as well as serving on the boards of other national emergency management organizations.