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Disaster Recovery Resources
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Housing Aspects

Mark G. Welsh and Ann-Margaret Esnard. "Closing Gaps in Local Housing Recovery Planning for
Disadvantaged Displaced Households "
by Mark G. Welsh and Ann-Margaret Esnard; in Cityscape:
A Journal of Policy Development and Research.
Pages 195-212; Vol. 11, No. 3, 2009.

Senate Committtee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery (Feb. 27, 2009) Far From Home: Deficiencies in Federal Disaster Housing Assistance After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and Recommendations for Improvement. 291pp. [Download first 20 pages or so for Table of Contents and Exec. Summary] This is a major report, reflecting indepth analysis of many documents and outcomes of many intereviews. Findings include many serious deficients. Authors do offer recommendations for improvements.

Walter Peacock et al. (2006) Chapter 15: Sheltering and Housing Recovery Following Disaster, in Handbook of
Disaster Research, Havidan Rodriguez, editor. Springer. pages 234-275.

Shelters:

International Association of Assemby Managers. Mega-Shelters, best practices re planning, operations, activation. July 2006. (218 pp.)

Temporary Housing and Transition to Permanent:

Suburban Emergency Management Project (SEMP) at www.semp.us; SEMP biot #522. An update and one perspective on housing construction in Louisiana, dated 5/12/08

Quarantelli et al. * * *
See also the list of publications done by the Disaster Research Center at the Univ. of DE.

Peacock, Walter G. et al.(2006). Sheltering and Housing Recovery Following Disasters in Rodriguez, H. et al (editors) Handbook of Disaster Research. N.Y.: Springer. [pp. 258-274] Recent and comprehensive chapter.

Housing Construction:

Johnson, Laurie A. (2000). Kobe and Northridge Reconstruction: A Look at Varying Public and Private Housing Reconstruction Financing Models. Conference paper.

Comerio, Mary. (1998) Disaster Hits Home: New Policy for Urban Housing Recovery. University of California Press, 1998.

For a current listing of her publications, go to: http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/ced/people/query.php?id=39&dept=all&title=all&first=Mary&last=Comerio&ced&berkeley

 

 

 

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