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Holistic Disaster Recovery: Ideas for Building Local Sustainability After a Natural Disaster

Submitted by Chris Steins on Mon, 09/12/2005 - 23:06.

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Subject: Resource: Holistic Disaster Recovery

http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/holistic_recovery/

Holistic Disaster Recovery
Ideas for Building Local Sustainability After a Natural Disaster

Produced by the Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center
with funding from the Public Entity Risk Institute

This handbook describes ways in which a local community can incorporate various aspects of a sustainable society (e.g., environmental quality, economic vitality, social equity, etc.) into all the decisions it must make during the recovery period following a disaster. This online version requires Adobe® PDF software.

Cover, Preface, Acknowledgments, Table of Contents 205k
Ch. 1: Introduction to Sustainability 478k
Ch. 2: The Disaster Recovery Process 180k
Ch. 3: Participatory Processes in Disaster Recovery 210k
Ch. 4: Using Disaster Recovery to Maintain and Enhance Quality of Life 282k
Ch. 5: Building Economic Vitality into Recovery 265k
Ch. 6: Promoting Social and Intergenerational Equity During Disaster Recovery 264k
Ch. 7: Protecting Environmental Quality During Disaster Recovery 310k
Ch. 8: Incorporating Disaster Resilience into Disaster Recovery 284k
Ch. 9: Summary and Glossary 187k
Evaluation Form 56k

BIBLIOGRAPHY: This annotated bibliography contains all the information sources from each chapter.
HTML format by chapter with links to online references: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8
PDF format with all chapters assembled together in one document .

A printed version of the full handbook may be ordered from the Public Entity Risk Institute on-line bookstore at www.riskinstitute.org. Assistance with ordering may be obtained by calling 703-352-1846.

The Holistic Disaster Recovery handbook is summarized in the Natural Hazards Informer, Issue 3:
Building Back Better: Creating a Sustainable Community After Disaster (12 pp.). 476k PDF

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How do planners get a say?

Submitted by jlautner on Tue, 09/13/2005 - 07:53.

This is a great resource, but how do we get it to the people who can actually have an effect? I am very concerned that this city will be recreated by people who have no sense of anything but profits.

Judith Lautner, Planning Specialist
City of Pismo Beach, CA

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