Disaster Resilience

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Disaster Resilience
NAS Press | 2012 | ISBN: 0309261473 9780309261470 | 217 pages | PDF | 6 MB

This book addresses the broad issue of reducing the impacts of disasters in the United States by investing in the enhancement of the nation's disaster resilience.

Issues addressed:
- the definition of national resilience;
- describing the state of knowledge about resilience to hazards and disasters;
- the main issues related to increasing resilience in the United States;
- the goals, baseline conditions, or performance metrics for national resilience; and
- the additional information, data, gaps, and obstacles that need to be addressed to increase the nation's resilience to disasters.

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Summary
1 The Nation's Agenda for Disaster Resilience
2 The Foundation for Building a Resilient Nation: Understanding, Managing, and Reducing Disaster Risks
3 Making the Case for Resilience Investments: The Scope of the Challenge
4 Measuring Progress Toward Resilience
5 Building Local Capacity and Accelerating Progress - Resilience from the Bottom-Up
6 The Landscape of Resilience Policy - Resilience from the Top-Down
7 Putting the Pieces Together: Linking Communities and Governance to Guide National Resilience
8 Building a More Resilient Nation: The Path Forward
Appendix A: Committee Biographical Information
Appendix B: Committee Meetings/Workshop Agendas
Appendix C: Essential Hazard Monitoring Networks
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