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Author Ross, Ashley D

Title Local disaster resilience : administrative and political perspectives / Ashley D. Ross
Published New York : Routledge, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Routledge research in public administration and public policy ; 9
Routledge research in public administration and public policy ; 9.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject 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.)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Elections.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Crisis management in government
Disaster relief
Ecology
Emergency management
Natural disasters -- Government policy
SUBJECT Gulf Coast (U.S.) -- Environmental conditions
Subject United States -- Gulf Coast
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781135910617
1135910618
1306132363
9781306132367
9780203551912
0203551915