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    Planning for Community Resilience: A Handbook for Reducing Vulnerability to Disasters

    By Jaimie Hicks Masterson, Walter Gillis Peacock, Shannon S. Van Zandt and

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    How can we plan and design stronger communities? From New Orleans to Galveston to the Jersey Shore, communities struck by natural disasters struggle to recover long after the first responders have left. Globally, the average annual number of natural disasters has more than doubled since 1980. These catastrophes are increasing in number as well as in magnitude, causing greater damage as we experience rising sea levels and other effects of climate change.

    Communities can reduce their vulnerability to disaster by becoming more resilient—to not only bounce back more readily from disasters but to grow stronger, more socially cohesive, and more environmentally responsible. To be truly resilient, disaster preparation and response must consider all populations in the community. By bringing together natural hazards planning and community planning to consider vulnerabilities, more resiliand equitable communities are achievable.

    In Planning for Community Resilience the authors describe an inclusive process for creating disaster-resilicommunities. Based on their recovery work after Hurricane Ike in Galveston, Texas, they developed a process that relies on the Disaster Impacts Model. This handbook guides any community through the process of determining their level of hazard exposure, physical vulnerability, and social vulnerability with the goal of determining the best planning strategy.

    Planning for Community Resilience will be invaluable to professionals working to protect their community from disturbance, including city planners, elected officials, floodplain managers, natural hazard managers, planning commissioners, local business leaders, and citizen organizers.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIsland Press
    Release dateNov 24, 2014
    ISBN9781610915861
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    Planning for Community Resilience: A Handbook for Reducing Vulnerability to Disasters
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    Jaimie Hicks Masterson

    Jaimie Hicks Masterson is a certified planner, instructor, and director of Texas Target Communities at Texas A&M University, Texas, United States. In this capacity, she liaises between researchers and community members to develop and execute research and applied planning projects that are responsive to the expressed needs of the community.

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