Disaster resilience : a national imperative

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Label

Disaster resilience : a national imperative

Title remainder

a national imperative

Statement of responsibility

Committee on Increasing National Resilience to Hazards and Disasters, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, the National Academies

Contributor

• National Academies (U.S.)
• National Research Council (U.S.), Committee on Increasing National Resilience to Hazards and Disasters

Subject

• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure
• Civil defense -- United States -- Administration
• Civil defense -- United States -- Organization
• Community organization
• Community organization -- United States
• Disaster Planning -- organization & administration -- United States
• Disaster relief
• Disaster relief -- Law and legislation
• Disaster relief -- Law and legislation -- United States
• Disaster relief -- United States
• Disasters
• Disasters -- Social aspects
• Disasters -- Social aspects -- United States
• Disasters -- United States
• Electronic books
• Emergency management
• Emergency management -- Law and legislation
• Emergency management -- Law and legislation -- United States
• Emergency management -- Planning
• Emergency management -- United States
• Emergency management -- United States -- Planning
• Preparedness
• Preparedness
• Resilience (Personality trait)
• Resilience (Personality trait)
• Resilience, Psychological -- United States
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
• United States

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

One way to reduce the impacts of disasters on the nation and its communities is to invest in enhancing resilience. As defined in this report, resilience is the ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from and more successfully adapt to adverse events. The NRC study committee was asked to (1) define 'national resilience' and frame the main issues related to increasing resilience in the United States; (2) provide goals, baseline conditions, or performance metrics for national resilience; (3) describe the state of knowledge about resilience to hazards and disasters; and (4) outline additional information, data, gaps, and/or obstacles that need to be addressed to increase the nation's resilience to disasters. The committee was also asked for recommendations about the necessary approaches to elevate national resilience to disasters in the United States. This report confronts the topic of how to increase the nation's resilience to disasters through a vision of the characteristics of a resilient nation in the year 2030. A set of six actionable recommendations are described that will help guide the nation toward increasing national resilience from the local community through to state and federal levels

Cataloging source

DID

Dewey number

363.34/60973

Funding information

This study was supported by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers under award number W912HQ-10-C-0071, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service under award number 09-DG11221637'351, U.S. Department of Energy under award number DE-PI0000010, U.S. Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under award number DG-133R-08CQ0062, Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency under award number HSHQDC-10-C-00087, Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey under award number G104P00079, National Aeronautics and Space Administration under award number NNXIOAN3IG, and Community and Regional Resilience Institute under award number 4000090613.

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

no index present

LC call number

HV551.3

LC item number

.D57 2012eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography
• technical reports

NLM call number

WA 295