Long-Term Community Recovery from Natural Disasters

By Daniel J. Alesch and Lucy Arendt

After a natural disaster, rebuilding the physical artifact of the community is necessary, but not alone sufficient for long-term community recovery. This book addresses the need to understand how communities develop and/or decay after an extreme natural hazard event. It focuses on how these events disrupt "normal" development and change-defining which parts of the community have to become reestablished, or made more functional, so that the community can achieve long-term viability. The combined practical and philosophical insight presented in this book will be valuable to not only to policy makers but to scholars as well.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1466593024
• ISBN13: 9781466593022
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"