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Community Disaster Recovery and Resiliency

ABSTRACT

Once again nature‘s fury has taken a toll in pain, suffering, and lives lost. In recognition of the need for a rapid and appropriate response, CRC Press will donate $5 to the American Red Cross for every copy of Community Disaster Recovery and Resiliency: Exploring Global Opportunities and Challenges sold. In the past, societies would learn from di

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part |2 pages

Part I: Opportunities Iand Challengesfor Building aCommunity-Based Institutional Infrastructure

chapter 1|38 pages

Disaster Preparedness among Community-Based Organizations in the City and County of San Francisco: Serving the Most Vulnerable

chapter 2|22 pages

Safe Schools for the Community: A Case and Tool for Disaster -Proof Schools

chapter 3|16 pages

Opportunities and Challenges of Battered Women’s Shelters in the Aftermath of a Disaster

part |2 pages

Part II: Opportunities and Challengesfor Social and Cultural Revitalization

chapter 4|20 pages

Disaster Resilience: Exploring All Hazards and Cross-Cultural Perspectives

chapter 5|24 pages

Community Resiliencein New Orleans East:Deploying the CulturalToolkit within a Vietnamese American Community

chapter 6|44 pages

Social Capital after a Disaster: A Case Studyof the 2008 Flood in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

chapter |4 pages

Part III: Opportunities and Challenges for Economic Recovery

chapter 7|32 pages

Natural Disasters, Climate Change, and Recovery: e Sustainability Question in Post-Ivan Grenada

chapter 8|18 pages

Information Commodification and Social Capital in Local Street Markets

chapter 9|26 pages

Role of Information and Communication Technologies in Disaster Rehabilitation in Agriculture and Ecotourism: Bukit Lawang, Indonesia .............................................................................. ARUL CHIB, ANISHA BAGHUDANA, AND SHILVIA KASDANI

chapter |4 pages

Part IV: Opportunities and Challengesfor Public Health and Safety

chapter 10|16 pages

e Irrawaddy Crisis: Myanmar and Cyclone Nargis—Challenges and Opportunities for Change

chapter 11|18 pages

Challenge of the Worried Well in the Event of a Pandemic or Terrorist Attack

chapter 12|16 pages

Aborigines’ and Migrant Settlers’ Crisis and Reconstruction Efforts in Two Yoruba Communities in Southwestern Nigeria

chapter 13|12 pages

An Assault on the Community’s Fabric: Tragedy, Challenges, and Opportunities of School Shootings

chapter |4 pages

Part V: Opportunities Vand Challenges for Housing and Housing Policy

chapter 14|24 pages

Housing Reconstruction in Post-Mitch Nicaragua: Two Case Studies from the Communities of San Dionisio and Ocotal

chapter 15|20 pages

Housing Reconstruction in Tamil Nadu: e Disaster after the Tsunami in India

chapter 16|28 pages

Building Earthquake-Resilient Communities

chapter |4 pages

Part VI: Opportunities and Challengesfor Public –PrivatePartnerships in the Twenty-First Century

chapter 17|28 pages

Bridging the Public–Private Partnership in Disaster Management in Bangladesh

chapter 18|24 pages

Building Disaster-Resilient Communities: e Public–Private Partnership Approach

chapter 19|28 pages

Patterns of Public–Private Partnershipin CommunityReconstruction: The Caseof Taiwan after the Chi-Chi Earthquake

part |2 pages

Part VII: Opportunities and Challenges for Disaster Mitigation

chapter 20|20 pages

How Nations Should Develop Disaster Plans for Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery: Lessons Learned from Major International Disasters

chapter 21|28 pages

Private Resilience Responses against Collective Recovery Interests: e Case of the Mega-Fires of Ilia, Greece, in August 2007

chapter 22|26 pages

Preplanning for Recovery

chapter 23|14 pages

Preparedness for Emergency: Learning from War-Caused Disaster in Israel

chapter 24|10 pages

Conclusion From Recovery to Resilience: Long-Lasting Social Change and Disaster Mitigation