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Planning for Community Resilience : A Handbook for Reducing Vulnerability to Disasters, Paperback / softback Book

Planning for Community Resilience : A Handbook for Reducing Vulnerability to Disasters Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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This timely handbook brings together the fields of planning, disaster response, and hazards management to provide a field-tested process on how to make communities disaster-resilient.

How can we plan and design stronger communities? Communities struck by natural disasters struggle to recover long after the first responders have left.

Globally, the average annual number of natural disasters has more than doubled since 1980.

These catastrophes are increasing in number as well as in magnitude, causing greater damage as we experience rising sea levels and other effects of climate change.

Communities can reduce their vulnerability to disaster by becoming more resilient, to not only bounce back more readily from disasters but to grow stronger, more socially cohesive, and more environmentally responsible.

To be truly resilient, disaster preparation and recovery must consider all populations in the community.

By bringing together natural hazards planning and community planning to consider vulnerabilities, more resilient and equitable communities are achievable.

In Planning for Community Resilience the authors describe an inclusive process for creating disaster-resilient communities. This handbook guides any community through the process of determining their level of hazard exposure, physical vulnerability, and social vulnerability with the goal of determining the best planning strategy.

This will be an invaluable tool for professionals working to protect communities from disturbance.

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