Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative

This book defines "national resilience", describes the state of knowledge about resilience to hazards and disasters, and frames the main issues related to increasing resilience in the United States. It also provide goals, baseline conditions, or performance metrics for national resilience and outlines additional information, data, gaps, and/or obstacles that need to be addressed to increase the nation's resilience to disasters.

The report recommends the development of a publicly accessible national repository that documents disaster-related injuries, loss of life, property loss, and impacts on economic activity. The data would allow communities to make informed decisions about investments as well as serve as a basis for biennial status reports on the nation's resilience.

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 and Staff Biographical Information
Appendix B: Committee Meetings and Public Agendas
Appendix C: Essential Hazard Monitoring Networks

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