Cities and Disasters

Davia Cox Downey

This book presents interdisciplinary and multinational perspectives on emergency management policy, economic development, and various factors affect the recovery process after natural disasters strike urban areas. The central theme of the book is threefold: policy, urbanity, and the interplay of events after disasters that affect a community's return to normalcy. Case studies highlight the diverse challenges that communities face with emergency planning and responses. Analyses help guide policymakers and policy actors in making decisions that strengthen communities for the future.

MARGINALIZATION AND RECOVERY. Enhancing Community and Economic Development Postdisaster through the Increased Resilience of Women. Nonprofits and Disasters. Country Mouse, City Mouse: Exploring the Differences in Rural and Urban Economic Recovery Postdisaster. TRANSPORTATION CONSIDERATIONS. Improving the City Resistance in War: Planning the Major Transportation Terminals Based on Passive Defense Considerations. Return to a State of Nature, Compassionate Conservatism, Failed Response, and Its Impact on Race, Ethnicity, and the U.S. Economy: Hurricane Katrina Case Study. RESILIENCE, COOPERATION, AND CITIZEN ATTITUDES. The Big Spill: Who Was to Blame and How Should Government Respond? Citizen Attitudes in the Aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon Spill in Coastal Alabama. How Government's Actions after a Disaster Affect Long-Term Civic Engagement: Shifting Opportunity and Motivation for Civic Participation in Christchurch, New Zealand. Managing for Resilience across Multiple Scales of Action in Joplin, Missouri. Vulnerabilities Magnified: A Closer Look at Disasters and Displacement. PLANNING AND PATH DEPENDENCE. The Historical Aspect of Social Vulnerability in the Lower Ninth Ward. Building Back Tremé: Using PPGIS to Evaluate Neighborhood Stability. Clustered and Community-Driven Housing Recovery: Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina to the Great East Japan Earthquake.