| Description |
1 online resource (244 pages) : color illustrations, color maps |
| Contents |
The nation's agenda for disaster resilience. -- Foundation for building a resilient nation: understanding, managing, and reducing disaster risks. -- Making the case for resilience investments: the scope of the challenge. -- Measuring progress toward resilience. -- Building local capacity and accelerating progress -- resilience from the bottom-up. -- The landscape of resilience policy -- resilience from the top-down. -- Putting the pieces together: linking communities and governance to guide national resilience. -- Building a more resilient nation: the path forward |
| Summary |
One way to reduce the impacts of disasters on the nation and its communities is to invest in enhancing resilience. As defined in this report, resilience is the ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from and more successfully adapt to adverse events. The NRC study committee was asked to (1) define 'national resilience' and frame the main issues related to increasing resilience in the United States; (2) provide goals, baseline conditions, or performance metrics for national resilience; (3) describe the state of knowledge about resilience to hazards and disasters; and (4) outline additional information, data, gaps, and/or obstacles that need to be addressed to increase the nation's resilience to disasters. The committee was also asked for recommendations about the necessary approaches to elevate national resilience to disasters in the United States. This report confronts the topic of how to increase the nation's resilience to disasters through a vision of the characteristics of a resilient nation in the year 2030. A set of six actionable recommendations are described that will help guide the nation toward increasing national resilience from the local community through to state and federal levels |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
This study was supported by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers under award number W912HQ-10-C-0071, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service under award number 09-DG11221637'351, U.S. Department of Energy under award number DE-PI0000010, U.S. Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under award number DG-133R-08CQ0062, Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency under award number HSHQDC-10-C-00087, Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey under award number G104P00079, National Aeronautics and Space Administration under award number NNXIOAN3IG, and Community and Regional Resilience Institute under award number 4000090613 |
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Online resource; title from resource home page (National Academies Press, viewed December 4, 2012) |
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Emergency management -- United States
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Emergency management -- Law and legislation -- United States
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Emergency management -- United States -- Planning
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Disaster relief -- United States.
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Disaster relief -- Law and legislation -- United States
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Disasters -- Social aspects -- United States
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Preparedness.
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Community organization -- United States
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Resilience (Personality trait)
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Disasters -- United States
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Civil defense -- United States -- Administration
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Civil defense -- United States -- Organization
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Disaster Planning -- organization & administration
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Resilience, Psychological
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Community organization
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Disaster relief
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Disaster relief -- Law and legislation
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Disasters
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Disasters -- Social aspects
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Emergency management
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Emergency management -- Law and legislation
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Preparedness
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Resilience (Personality trait)
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| SUBJECT |
United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Increasing National Resilience to Hazards and Disasters.
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National Academies (U.S.)
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| ISBN |
9780309261500 |
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0309261503 |
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9780309261517 |
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0309261511 |
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