
Innovative Community Responses to Disaster
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 2. July 2015
Book
Hardback
120 pages
978-1-138-90769-0 (ISBN)
Description
Increasingly, community leaders around the world face major natural and economic disasters that require them to find ways to rebuild both physical infrastructure and the local economy. Doing this effectively requires an understanding of how various parts of the community are interconnected, as well as information as to which revitalization approaches have succeeded in the past. Community investment in recovery is essential and, in some cases, may require local leaders to rethink how it can be financed and arranged.
This book presents a conceptual framework based on the community capitals, and describes approaches that have succeeded in situations where local leaders have coordinated efforts to rebuild and revitalize local conditions. Contributions provide examples of successful approaches around the world, thus analysing potential strategies for addressing disasters of many different types in various cultural settings. In this way, the book provides insights into a variety of approaches based on applications of accepted community development theory and concepts.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Community Development.
This book presents a conceptual framework based on the community capitals, and describes approaches that have succeeded in situations where local leaders have coordinated efforts to rebuild and revitalize local conditions. Contributions provide examples of successful approaches around the world, thus analysing potential strategies for addressing disasters of many different types in various cultural settings. In this way, the book provides insights into a variety of approaches based on applications of accepted community development theory and concepts.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Community Development.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-90769-0 (9781138907690)
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Brent Hales | Norman Walzer | James Calvin
Innovative Community Responses to Disaster
E-Book
10/2017
1st Edition
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Brent Hales | Norman Walzer | James Calvin
Innovative Community Responses to Disaster
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10/2017
1st Edition
Routledge
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Brent Hales | Norman Walzer | James Calvin
Innovative Community Responses to Disaster
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Persons
Brent D. Hales is Associate Dean of Extension in the Centre for Community Vitality at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA. His primary area of research is the adoption innovation-based community and economic development and entrepreneurship.
Norman Walzer is Senior Research Scholar in the Centre for Governmental Studies at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA.
James R. Calvin is an Associate Professor in the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Norman Walzer is Senior Research Scholar in the Centre for Governmental Studies at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA.
James R. Calvin is an Associate Professor in the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Editor
University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA; Purdue University, USA
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Content
1. Community responses to disasters: a foundation for recovery 2. Moving forward in Sierra Leone: community-based factors for postconflict development 3. The road to recovery from a natural disaster: voices from the community 4. Community capitals and disaster recovery: Northwood, ND recovers from an EF 4 tornado 5. Untapped: elderly civic engagement in the rebuilding of the Mississippi Gulf Coast 6. Digging deeper: participation and non-participation in post-disaster community recovery 7. Climate change, food security, and sustainable development: a study on community-based responses and adaptations in British Columbia, Canada 8. Community recovery, a new value proposition for community investment