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Local Disaster Management
About this book
Local Disaster Management explores what resilience means for local communities and local governments on the front line of responding to disasters and emergencies.
Disaster management is often seen as a major international issue undertaken by global actors such as the UN, Red Cross and Red Crescent. Yet fundamentally, all disasters are local. Every disaster, regardless of its type, affects individuals, families and communities before they escalate to encompassing one or many communities or nations. This volume therefore explores fundamental issues of disaster and emergency management at the local level. What is resilience? What does resilience mean for a local government seeking to lessen the impact of disasters on their community? How do local governments adapt through their experiences of disasters and how do they recover from catastrophic experiences? This book explores these issues with chapters from top scholars in the field, draws out lessons for local government officials and disaster managers seeking to build community resilience, prepare their communities for a changing environment, and facilitate recovery after disasters strike.
Local Disaster Management provides invaluable insight for local governments charged with managing the inescapable effects of climate change and the increasing frequency and severity of disasters, as well as for scholars of local governance, disaster resilience, government policy, and disaster management. The chapters were originally published as a special issue in Local Government Studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Citation Information
- Notes on Contributors
- Local emergency management special issue: a foreword by Dr Barry Quirk CBE
- Introduction: Local emergency management special issue
- 1 The concept of resilience: a bibliometric analysis of the emergency and disaster management literature
- 2 Resilience policy in practice – surveying the role of community-based organisations in local disaster management
- 3 Local politics in an international context: a linguistic analysis of community resiliency in Memphis, TN
- 4 Residential taxable value recovery in coastal Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina
- 5 Using community education interventions to build resilience and avert crises: how accidental dwelling fires decreased in Essex County, UK
- 6 Perceptions of disaster resilience in four Texas coastal communities
- 7 Maintaining the status quo: understanding local use of resilience strategies to address earthquake risk in Oklahoma
- Index