Ashley D. Ross

Local Disaster Resilience (eBook, ePUB)

Administrative and Political Perspectives

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Systematically explores and measures disaster resilience across the Gulf Coast to gain a better understanding of how resilience in concept is translated into disaster management practices, particularly on the local government level.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135910686
• Artikelnr.: 40020552

Autorenporträt

Ashley D. Ross is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Sam Houston State University. Her research focuses on comparative public policy with an emphasis on local governments. In addition to this work on local disaster resilience, her research has examined decentralization in Latin America, education policy in the United States, and environmental policy among municipalities in Costa Rica.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Local Disaster Resilience. 2. The Concept of Disaster
Resilience. 3. Studying Disaster Resilience of the Gulf Coast. 4.
Resilience Meanings and Perceptions. 5. Adaptive Capacities for Disaster
Resilience across the Gulf Coast. 6. Exploring the Adaptive Process of
Resilience across the Gulf Coast. 7. Intersecting Perceptions with
Realities to Assess Resilience across the Gulf Coast. 8. Concluding
Thoughts on Local Disaster Resilience.