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Local disaster resilience [electronic resource] : administrative and political perspectives / Ashley D. Ross.

By: Ross, Ashley DMaterial type: Text

TextSeries: Routledge research in public administration and public policy ; 9.Publication details: New York : Routledge, 2014Description: xvi, 281 p. : illISBN: 9780203551912 (e-book : PDF)Subject(s): Environmental disasters -- Government policy -- Gulf Coast (U.S.) | Natural disasters -- Government policy -- Gulf Coast (U.S.) | Emergency management -- Gulf Coast (U.S.) | Disaster relief -- Gulf Coast (U.S.) | Crisis management in government -- Gulf Coast (U.S.) | Gulf Coast (U.S.) -- Environmental conditionsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources: Click here to view Also available in print edition.

Contents:

1. Introduction : local disaster resilience -- 2. The concept of disaster resilience -- 3. Studying disaster resilience of the gulf coast -- 4. Resilience meanings and perceptions -- 5. Adaptive capacities for disaster resilience across the gulf coast -- 6. Exploring the adaptive process of resilience across the gulf coast -- 7. Intersecting perceptions with realities to assess resilience across the gulf coast -- 8. Concluding thoughts on local disaster resilience.

Summary: Since 2000, the Gulf Coast states - Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida - have experienced a series of hurricanes, multiple floods and severe storms, and one oil spill. These disasters have not only been numerous but also devastating. Response to and recovery from these unprecedented disasters has been fraught with missteps in management. In efforts to avoid similar failures in the future, government agencies and policy practitioners have looked to recast emergency management, and community resilience has emerged as a way for to better prevent, manage, and recover from these disasters. How is disaster resilience perceived by local government officials and translated into their disaster response and recovery efforts? Ashley D. Ross systematically explores and measures disaster resilience across the Gulf Coast to gain a better understanding of how resilience in concept is translated into disaster management practices, particularly on the local government level. In doing so, she presents disaster resilience theory to the Gulf Coast using existing data to create county-level baseline indicators of Gulf Coast disaster resilience and an original survey of county emergency managers and elected municipal officials in 60 counties and 120 municipalities across the Gulf States. The findings of the original survey measure the disaster resilience perceptions held by local government officials, which are examined to identify commonalities and differences across the set of cases-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Since 2000, the Gulf Coast states - Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida - have experienced a series of hurricanes, multiple floods and severe storms, and one oil spill. These disasters have not only been numerous but also devastating. Response to and recovery from these unprecedented disasters has been fraught with missteps in management. In efforts to avoid similar failures in the future, government agencies and policy practitioners have looked to recast emergency management, and community resilience has emerged as a way for to better prevent, manage, and recover from these disasters. How is disaster resilience perceived by local government officials and translated into their disaster response and recovery efforts? Ashley D. Ross systematically explores and measures disaster resilience across the Gulf Coast to gain a better understanding of how resilience in concept is translated into disaster management practices, particularly on the local government level. In doing so, she presents disaster resilience theory to the Gulf Coast using existing data to create county-level baseline indicators of Gulf Coast disaster resilience and an original survey of county emergency managers and elected municipal officials in 60 counties and 120 municipalities across the Gulf States. The findings of the original survey measure the disaster resilience perceptions held by local government officials, which are examined to identify commonalities and differences across the set of cases-- Provided by publisher.

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