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Case Studies in Disaster Recovery
A Volume in the Disaster and Emergency Management: Case Studies in Adaptation and Innovation Series
- 1st Edition - December 2, 2022
- Editor: Jane Kushma
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 9 5 7 4 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 9 5 3 6 - 2
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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Request a sales quoteCase 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.
- Presents in-depth cases studies in disaster recovery - a phase of disaster management
- Unites practice and research from multiple disciplines to highlight the complexity of disasters mitigation, including environmental and earth sciences, engineering, public health, geography, sociology and anthropology
- Examines policy and ethical dilemmas faced by decision-makers in disaster situations
Researchers in disaster and emergency management, secondary audience as supplemental text in graduate courses in disaster and emergency management
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Disaster and Emergency Management: Case studies in adaptation and innovation
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contributors
- About the series editors
- Acknowledgments
- Case studies in disaster and emergency management
- Comparison of characteristics of adaptation and innovation across the cases in this volume
- Recovery volume introduction
- Part 1. Early recovery
- Chapter 1. Business recovery from disaster: creating an enabling environment for surviving and thriving
- Case summary
- State-of-the practice overview
- Adaptation and innovation characteristics
- Case description
- Pre-existing context
- Institutional conditions – government policy responses
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- Recommended readings
- Chapter 2. Resilient recovery strategies: lessons from the local nonprofit sector following Hurricane Ike
- Case summary
- State of the practice overview
- Adaptation and innovation characteristics
- Case description
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- Chapter 3. Dedicated service in the aftermath of disasters: An organizational identity transition from latent to manifest disaster relief work
- Case summary
- State of the practice overview
- Adaptation and innovation characteristics
- Case description
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- Recommended readings
- Chapter 4. Preventing fraud versus preventing risk reduction - Are we focusing too much on making sure that people don't cheat?
- Case summary
- State-of-the practice overview
- Adaptation and innovation characteristics
- Case description
- Case study findings
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- Part 2. Long-term recovery
- Chapter 5. “Reign from behind the curtain”- Women's leadership during post-earthquake stages in rural areas in Sichuan, China
- Case summary
- State-of-the practice overview
- Adaptation and innovation characteristics
- Case description
- Women in post-disaster reconstruction and recovery
- Women's vulnerability
- Women's contribution
- Women's leadership
- Research approach
- Women's leadership in Sichuan Province, China
- Wenchuan and Lushan earthquakes
- Reconstruction and recovery after Wenchuan earthquake and Lushan earthquake
- Women's leadership in post-disaster settings
- Emergency response stage
- Short-term reconstruction stage
- Long-term recovery stage
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- Recommended readings
- Chapter 6. Community recovery from an urban disaster: longitudinal case study of a community-based organization in Mikura, Kobe, Japan
- Case summary
- State-of-the practice overview
- Adaptation and innovation characteristics
- Case description
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- Recommended readings
- Part 3. Planning for recovery
- Chapter 7. Joplin tornado recovery
- Case summary
- State of the practice overview
- Adaptation and innovation characteristics
- Joplin, Missouri – a community determined to recover from disaster
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- Recommended readings
- Chapter 8. Formalization of local pre-disaster recovery planning: comparison of local approaches in the United States and New Zealand
- Case summary
- State-of-the practice overview
- Adaptation and innovation characteristics
- Local pre-disaster recovery planning in the United States: Seattle, Washington
- Local pre-disaster recovery planning in New Zealand: greater Wellington Region
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- Recommended readings
- Recovery volume conclusion
- Index
- No. of pages: 272
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: December 2, 2022
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128095744
- eBook ISBN: 9780128095362
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Jane Kushma
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.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emerita of Emergency Management and Director of the Center for Disaster and Community Resilience, Jacksonville State University, Alabama, USARead Case Studies in Disaster Recovery on ScienceDirect