Cities and Disasters | Davia Cox Downey | Taylor & Francis eBooks, Ref

ABSTRACT

Cities and Disasters presents interdisciplinary and multinational perspectives on emergency management policy, economic development, and the various factors that affect the recovery process after natural disasters strike urban areas. The book has three central themes: policy, urbanity, and the interplay of events after disasters that affect the pro

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part |2 pages

Section I Marginalization And Recovery

chapter 1|24 pages

Enhancing Community And Economic Development Postdisaster Through The Increased Resilience Of Women

chapter 2|26 pages

Nonprofits And Disasters

chapter 3|28 pages

Country Mouse, City Mouse: Exploring The Differences In Rural And Urban Economic Recovery Postdisaster

part |2 pages

Section II Transportation Considerations

chapter 4|22 pages

Improving City Resistance In War: Planning Major Transportation Terminals Based On Passive Defense Considerations

chapter 5|22 pages

Return to a State of Nature, Compassionate Conservatism, Failed Response, and Their Impact on Race, Ethnicity, and the U.S

part |2 pages

Section III Resilience, Cooperation, And Citizen Attitudes

chapter 6|18 pages

The Big Spill: Who Was to Blame and How Should Government Respond? Citizen Attitudes in the Aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon Spill in Coastal Alabama

chapter 7|26 pages

How Government’s Actions after a Disaster Affect Long-Term Civic Engagement: Shifting Opportunity and Motivation for Civic Participation in Christchurch, New Zealand

chapter 8|34 pages

Managing For Resilience Across Multiple Scales Of Action In Joplin,

chapter 9|16 pages

Vulnerabilities Magnified: A Closer Look At Disasters And Displacement

part |2 pages

Section IV Planning And Path Dependence

chapter 10|24 pages

The Historical Aspect Of Social Vulnerability In The Lower Ninth Ward*

chapter 11|20 pages

Building Back Tremé: Using Ppgis To Evaluate Neighborhood Stability

chapter 12|28 pages

Clustered and Community-Driven Housing Recovery: Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina to the Great East Japan Earthquake