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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… Read more
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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.
Researchers in disaster and emergency management, secondary audience as supplemental text in graduate courses in disaster and emergency management
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
JK
Jane Kushma is a Professor Emerita of Emergency Management and Director of the Center for Disaster and Community Resilience at Jacksonville State University in Alabama. She has been involved in the design and delivery of emergency management higher education programs and curriculum development for several universities for nearly 30 years. Prior to joining academia, she worked for the American Red Cross and was responsible for nationwide catastrophic disaster planning and preparedness and supported the development of the first federal response plan. Her research interests include disaster recovery and resilience, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.