Local Disaster Management

ISBN-13: 9780367476663 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 164 str.

Gina Yannitell Reinhardt; Lex Drennan

Opis

Local Disaster Management explores what resilience means for local communities and local governments on the front line of responding to disasters and emergencies.

Spis treści

Local emergency management special issue: a foreword by Dr Barry Quirk CBE Introduction: Local emergency management special issue Gina Yannitell Reinhardt and Lex Drennan 1. The concept of resilience: a bibliometric analysis of the emergency and disaster management literature Fatih Demiroz and Thomas W. Haase 2. Resilience policy in practice – surveying the role of community-based organisations in local disaster management Lex Drennan and Lochlan Morrissey 3. Local politics in an international context: a linguistic analysis of community resiliency in Memphis, TN Leah Cathryn Windsor, Andrew J. Hampton, James Grayson Cupit and Alistair James Windsor 4. Residential taxable value recovery in coastal Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina Skip Krueger, Julie Winkler and Ronald L. Schumann 5. Using community education interventions to build resilience and avert crises: how accidental dwelling fires decreased in Essex County, UK Gina Yannitell Reinhardt and Kakia Chatsiou 6. Perceptions of disaster resilience in four Texas coastal communities Kirby Goidel, Jennifer A. Horney, Paul M. Kellstedt, Emily Sullivan and Stephanie E. V. Brown 7. Maintaining the status quo: understanding local use of resilience strategies to address earthquake risk in Oklahoma Ray HsienHo Chang, Alex Greer, Haley Murphy, Hao-Che (Tristan) Wu and Steven Melton