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Crow and Albright outline if, what, and when communities learn from disasters to make them more resilient to future shocks.
List of contents
Section I. Introduction; 1. Introduction to Disasters, Change, and Community-Level Resilience; 2. Colorado's 2013 Floods: The Disaster that Primed Community-Level Learning; Section II. Damage and Resources; 3. Disaster Damage, Severity, and Extent; 4. Pre-Disaster Capacity and Post-Disaster Resources for Recovery; Section III. Individual Beliefs; 5. Worldviews, Risk Perceptions, and Causal Beliefs: How Individuals Experience Disasters; 6. Trust in Government and Support for Policy Action; Section IV. Individual & Group Engagement; 7. Stakeholder Engagement and Community-Level Disaster Recovery towards Resilience; 8. Intergovernmental Relationships and Successful Disaster Recovery and Learning; Section V. Connections, Conclusions and Recommendations; 9. A Framework for Understanding Community-Level Learning in the Aftermath of Disaster; 10. Examining Community-Scale Disaster Recovery and Resilience Beyond Colorado; 11. Conclusions, Recommendations, and Future Directions.
About the author
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.
Summary
Disasters can serve as focusing events to increase attention to issues related to disaster vulnerability, preparedness, and resilience in communities, leading to policy changes and learning. Crow and Albright present a novel framework for understanding if, how, and to what effect communities and local governments learn after disaster strikes.
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'Understanding community-level learning in the wake of disaster is essential to strengthen disaster resilience. In this authoritative book, Crow and Albright provides a rich and insightful framework for analyzing learning and dynamics of community resilience after major disaster events. This is an important reference for both scholars and practitioners with an interest in how communities use experience from disruptive disasters to build resilience for the future.' Daniel Nohrstedt, Professor in Political Science, Uppsala University
