Community Disaster Recovery: Moving from Vulnerability to Resilience (Organizations and the Natural Environment) - Hardcover

Crow, Deserai A.; Albright, Elizabeth A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1316511642 ISBN 13: 9781316511640

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2021

Synopsis

Crow and Albright outline if, what, and when communities learn from disasters to make them more resilient to future shocks.

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About the Authors

Dr Deserai A. Crow is an Associate Professor and researches local and state-level environmental policy, often focusing on crisis and disaster recovery and risk mitigation in local communities and natural resource agencies. Deserai's crisis and disaster work includes National Science Foundation funded work on disaster recovery, COVID-19 risk perceptions and behaviors as influenced by state-level policies, and environmental justice outcomes associated with local control of oil and gas regulations.

Dr. Elizabeth A. Albright, is an Associate Professor of the Practice at the Nicholas School of the Environment and engages in research around questions of local level resilience, and community learning in response to extreme events. Funded by the National Science Foundation, her work in Colorado was awarded the Paul A. Sabatier Award for Best Paper in Environmental Politics at the American Political Science Association annual meeting.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1316511642
• ISBN 13: 9781316511640
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 225