TY  - BOOK
ED  - National Research Council (U.S.).
ED  - National Academies (U.S.)
TI  - Disaster resilience: a national imperative 
SN  - 9780309261500
AV  - HV551.3 .D57 2012eb
U1  - 363.34/60973 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - National Academies Press
KW  - Emergency management
KW  - United States
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - Planning
KW  - Disaster relief
KW  - Disasters
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Preparedness
KW  - Community organization
KW  - Resilience (Personality trait)
KW  - Civil defense
KW  - Administration
KW  - Organization
KW  - Disaster Planning
KW  - organization & administration
KW  - Resilience, Psychological
KW  - Catastrophes
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - État de préparation
KW  - Organisation communautaire
KW  - Résilience (Trait de personnalité)
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Infrastructure
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; The nation's agenda for disaster resilience. -- Foundation for building a resilient nation: understanding, managing, and reducing disaster risks. -- Making the case for resilience investments: the scope of the challenge. -- Measuring progress toward resilience. -- Building local capacity and accelerating progress -- resilience from the bottom-up. -- The landscape of resilience policy -- resilience from the top-down. -- Putting the pieces together: linking communities and governance to guide national resilience. -- Building a more resilient nation: the path forward
N2  - One way to reduce the impacts of disasters on the nation and its communities is to invest in enhancing resilience. As defined in this report, resilience is the ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from and more successfully adapt to adverse events. The NRC study committee was asked to (1) define 'national resilience' and frame the main issues related to increasing resilience in the United States; (2) provide goals, baseline conditions, or performance metrics for national resilience; (3) describe the state of knowledge about resilience to hazards and disasters; and (4) outline additional information, data, gaps, and/or obstacles that need to be addressed to increase the nation's resilience to disasters. The committee was also asked for recommendations about the necessary approaches to elevate national resilience to disasters in the United States. This report confronts the topic of how to increase the nation's resilience to disasters through a vision of the characteristics of a resilient nation in the year 2030. A set of six actionable recommendations are described that will help guide the nation toward increasing national resilience from the local community through to state and federal levels
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