Recovery Information Sharing Project

Selected Resources re Disaster Recovery at the Community Level

This site is a central location for collecting and sharing citations and links to worthwhile documents and other sources dealing with disaster recovery from major disasters. It will be a work in progress -- watch for additions in the coming months. We welcome suggestions and comments.

For a quick overview of all categories of information included, use the Site Map option at the top of this page.

News:

Light, Paul. Predicting Organizational Crisis Readiness: Perspective and Practices toward a Pathway to Preparedness. NYU. August 2008. 65pp. download. [Contains some discussion of recovery phase.]

As the 3rd anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, two new studies are available:

• The Brookings Institution has issue its Anniversary Edition; Three Years After Katrina Report ( August 2008). See their website for both the full report or an executive summary report.
• The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation has released a new report; titled New Orleans Three Years After the Storm. The executive summary is 7 pages and the full report is 81 pages. (August 2008)

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This project was created and is managed by Claire B. Rubin, President of Claire B. Rubin & Associates.

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