Disaster Recovery: Tools and Case Studies
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Beschreibung
There is little in-depth understanding of the processes at play after a major disaster and there is no comprehensive text that compares so many different places that have experienced a major disaster to see what they have in common and to document their successes and failures.
Time is compressed after a disaster. There is an urgency to bring relief and to ‘get back to normal’ – to rebuild livelihoods, clear up the debris, repair the damage and, amongst the more far-sighted, to ‘build back better’. This means that decision making happens faster than normal. Gifted people come together for a limited time, usually less than two years, and are given extraordinary powers to get things done.
This book describes the work of these people and what happened in ten different disasters. The author visited all of these places and interviewed the main actors – politicians and local governors, engineers and scientists, people at the national, regional and local level, planners, business people and local residents.
From these case studies he draws lessons and describes tools to improve decision making, including how to provide the necessary information in a timely and cost effective way.
This book presents a model for effective disaster management decision-making and offers tools to help manage recovery. It draws lessons from ten different disasters throughout the world, detailing the successes as well as failures in each region.
There is little in-depth understanding of the processes at play after a major disaster and there is no comprehensive text that compares so many different places that have experienced a major disaster to see what they have in common and to document their successes and failures.
Time is compressed after a disaster. There is an urgency to bring relief and to ‘get back to normal’ – to rebuild livelihoods, clear up the debris, repair the damage and, amongst the more far-sighted, to ‘build back better’. This means that decision making happens faster than normal. Gifted people come together for a limited time, usually less than two years, and are given extraordinary powers to get things done.
This book describes the work of these people and what happened in ten different disasters. The author visited all of these places and interviewed the main actors – politicians and local governors, engineers and scientists, people at the national, regional and local level, planners, business people and local residents.
From these case studies he draws lessons and describes tools to improve decision making, including how to provide the necessary information in a timely and cost effective way.
Draws lessons from wide variety of cases in many different counties
Describes the successes and failures in each place
Presents a model for effective disaster management decision-making
Provides tools to help manage recovery and plan reconstruction
Will be of interest to both practitioners and academics
Draws lessons from wide variety of cases in many different counties
Describes the successes and failures in each place
Presents a model for effective disaster management decision-making
Provides tools to help manage recovery and plan reconstruction
Will be of interest to both practitioners and academics
Autor*in
Stephen Platt
Themen in »Disaster Recovery: Tools and Case Studies«
Disaster Management and Decision Making Earthquake Disaster and Recovery Hurricane Hazards and Reconstruction and Recovery Natural Hazards and Reconstruction Tsunami Hazard and Recovery