Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative

2013/03/01 by Susan L. Cutter, Joseph A. Ahearn, Bernard Amadei +15 · 1,018 citations
Engineering · Environmental Science · Social Sciences · #Black swan theory #Community resilience #Disaster Management and Resilience #Emergency management #Engineering #Flood Risk Assessment and Management #Geography #History #Homeland security #Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis #Law #National security #Natural disaster #Political science #Politics #Public administration #Resilience (materials science) #Sociology #Terrorism

paper · doi:10.1080/00139157.2013.768076

published in Environment Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 55(2), 25-29 (Taylor & Francis)

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Abstract

Escalating disaster losses coupled with the increasing frequency of billion-dollar disaster events, such as the recent Hurricane Sandy, highlight some of the challenges to hazards and disaster poli...

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