Recovery

Definition, examples

Natural hazards/ Tech and Industrial hazards and disasters

Similarities and differences

Rubin, Claire B. Is the Past Prologue? in TIEMS proceedings, 2000.

Enabling Legislation/Authorities

Legislation

Regulations

History

Rubin, Claire B. et al. Community Recovery After a Major Natural Disaster. NHRAIC Monograph #41, 1985.

ICMA text

Recommended Reading

NHRAIC and PERI. Holistic Disaster Recovery: Ideas for Building Local Sustainability After a Natural Disaster. Jan. 2002. Download from Natural Hazards Center, University of CO/Boulder.

Summary of Recovery Literature, by Jeanine Petterson. NHRAIC Working Paper # 102 (2000)

Mitchell, James et al. The Long Road to Recovery; Community Responses to Industrial Disasters. United Nations University Press. (1999). Available as hard copy book or downloadable in full text from U.N. University Press.

Schwab, Jim et al. Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction. FEMA, APA, PAS Report, 1998. Available from FEMA documents center.

Recommended Reading

The Costs of Disasters – Univ. of CO: NHRAIC web site.

Rubin, Claire B. et al. Community Recovery After a Major Natural Disaster. NHRAIC Monograph # 41. Boulder, CO: University of CO.(1985) Hardcopy only.

Rubin, Claire B. Chapter #9: Recovery From Disaster in Emergency Management: in Principles and Practice for Local Government. Washington, DC: ICMA (1991)

Emergency Management Australia. Australian Emergency Manual on Disaster Recovery. 1996. [availability?]

U.N Dept of Economic and Social Affairs. Natural Disasters and Sustaninable Development: Understanding the Links Between Development, Environment and Natural Disasters, Jan. 2002. (12 pp)

Recommended Articles

(4) Australian Journal of EM: Catastrophe Management: Coping with Totally Unexpected Extreme Disasters, by Allan Skertchly and Kristen Skertchly (Autumn 2001). Go to web site; then to Virtual library, publications, Journal of EM.

Present Practice

FEMA recovery documents...

Emergency Management (public sector)

(1) Local government

(2) State/provincial government

(3) National government

(4) Other ...

Inter-organizational and inter-government aspects

Political/ Policy/ Public Administration Aspects

See FEMA Instructors Guides by Sylves and Waugh (full citations are EM section)

Recovery: by unit of analysis:

personal/family

neighborhood

community

local/regional

state

national

international: sand, smoke , ash from other countries.....

General resources

Government Documents

FEMA instructor Guides:

Building Disaster Resistant and Sustainable Communities (draft IG)

New Resources on sustainable recovery will be at NHRAIC site, estimated in early 2002. URL: www.colorado.edu/hazards

Economic Development Administration (EDA) of US Dept. of Commerce and FEMA. Economic Impact Assessment of Hurricane Floyd: for NC, for NJ, and for VA; Jan 2000.

Private Sector

Journals/ Periodicals/On-line Resources

Business Contingency Planners Assoc.

Contingency Planning magazine and web site

Contains article archives, on-line magazine articles, and case studies

Disaster Recovery Journal

Recovery Catalog/Rothstein Co. - Although a commercial site for recovery documents, the site has a useful list of web links.

Case Studies etc.

Business Contingency Planning Case Studies (IBM)

Strohl Sytems , also has some case studies on their site.

FEMA Handbooks with guidance and requirements for State and local governments

See handbook ****

Archives: classic documents

Disaster Research Center (DRC) at University of Delaware, Under publications, check out the the Preliminary Papers; No. 243, 281, and 292 deal with business recovery.

Recommended Links

The book Disasters By Design (2000); has an on-line bibliography, which has excellent selection of readings on recovery.

International

US AID/Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) -- annual reports and field guide.

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. World Disasters Report: Focus on Recovery (2001).

Munich Reinsurance Co., Yearly summary report

Swiss Reinsurance Co., Yearly summary report

Individual Classes and Modules

Definitions and Distinctions among Reconstruction and Recovery

Private Sector

Public Sector

Recovery and Sustainable Development

U.N Dept of Economic and Social Affairs. Natural Disasters and Sustaninable Development: Understanding the Links Between Development, Environment and Natural Disasters, Jan. 2002. (12 pp)

Four phases and Relationships among them

Case examples and case studies

Essential components of recovery

Determinants of efficient and effective recovery

 

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