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- Title
- Planning for the Post-Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction.
- File
- PB2003104335.pdf
- Author(s)
- Schwab, J.; Topping, K. C.; Eadie, C. C.; Deyle, R. E.; Smith, R. A.
- Source
- January 2003, 352 p.
- Abstract
- The purpose of this document is to help community leaders and planners educate their constituents on how informed decisions and choices can affect the rebuilding process and yield a safer, more sustainable community. In the debates and deliberations within communities on post-disaster reconstruction policy, participants have many other interests to balance against concerns about natural hazards. These emotional debates pit the often overwhelming desire to perpetuate historic (and unsafe) development patterns and construction techniques against the desire to use disasters as opportunities to rethink these patterns and practices and to break away from the uninformed decisions of the past. Yet, balancing competing interests intelligently has always been at the core of planning. This document is thus designed to equip planners and all others involved in post-disaster reconstruction issues at all levels of government with the tools needed to create (or re-create) communities that will withstand most of what Mother Nature throws at them.
- Keywords
- ; Emergency planning; Hurricanes; Floods; Tornadoes; Economic recovery; Risk assessment; Policies; Legal aspects; Hazard mitigation; Case studies; Financial services; Crisis management; Natural disasters; Recovery; Disaster recovery; Wildfire; United States; Earthquakes