1st Edition

Innovative Community Responses to Disaster

Edited By Brent D. Hales, Norman Walzer, James Calvin Copyright 2015
132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

Increasingly, community leaders around the world face major natural and economic disasters that require them to find ways to rebuild both physical infrastructure and the local economy. Doing this effectively requires an understanding of how various parts of the community are interconnected, as well as information as to which revitalization approaches have succeeded in the past. Community... Read more

1. Community responses to disasters: a foundation for recovery Brent Hales, Norman Walzer and James Calvin

2. Moving forward in Sierra Leone: community-based factors for postconflict development Whitney McIntyre Miller

3. The road to recovery from a natural disaster: voices from the community P.A. Onstad, S.M. Danes, A.M. Hardman, P.D. Olson, M.S. Marczak, R.K. Heins, S.R. Croymans and K.A. Coffee

4. Community capitals and disaster recovery: Northwood, ND recovers from an EF 4 tornado Curtis W. Stofferahn

5. Untapped: elderly civic engagement in the rebuilding of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Brent D. Hales

6. Digging deeper: participation and non-participation in post-disaster community recovery Divya Chandrasekhar

7. Climate change, food security, and sustainable development: a study on community-based responses and adaptations in British Columbia, Canada Julie Drolet

8. Community recovery, a new value proposition for community investment James Calvin

Biography

Brent D. Hales is Associate Dean of Extension in the Centre for Community Vitality at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA. His primary area of research is the adoption innovation-based community and economic development and entrepreneurship.

Norman Walzer is Senior Research Scholar in the Centre for Governmental Studies at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA.

James R. Calvin is an Associate Professor in the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.