Recovery Information Sharing Project

Selected Resources re Disaster Recovery at the Community Level

This site offers a collection of documents,citations, and links, dealing with community recovery from major disasters. For a quick overview of all categories of information included, use the Site Map option at the top of this page.

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Recent Additions:

Planning for Post Disaster Recovery: A Review of the United States Disaster Assistance Framework; by Gavin Smith; publicshed by Island Press, 2011..

University of Memphis. The “Phases” of  Emergency Management (46 pp.) and one on The Recovery Phase of Emergency Management (35 pp.). University of Memphis, Center for Advanced Intermodal Technologies. The author is Dr. Malcolm E. Baird; both papers are dated January 2010. Posted 4/22/11.

Assoc. of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) in CA has an excellent set of resources re recovery. 3/2/11

State of Florida. Post-Disaster Redevelopment Planning. Issued October, 2010; 158 pages. Excellent, comprehensive planning guidance for long-term recovery.

Copy of GAO's slide presentation at Higher Education Conference, June 9, 2010 on Long-Term Recovery from Disaster. (24pp.)

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Other Sources:

FEMA. Recovery Resources Available.

Claire B. Rubin (July 2009) titled Long-Term Recovery from Disasters; The Neglected Component of Emergency Management in Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.

Daniel Alesch et al. (2009) Managing for Long-Term Community Recovery in the Aftermath of Disaster. Paperback book, 200 pp. Available from the new site:DisasterBookstore.com. Now in its second printing.

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