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Recovery Information Sharing Project
Selected Resources re Disaster Recovery at the Community Level
This site offers a collection of documentscitations, and links, dealing with community recovery from major disasters.
For a quick overview of all categories of information included,
use the Site Map option at the top of this page.
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For current news and information about recovery go the the blog: RecoveryDiva.com
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Recent Additions:
New Book: Planning for Post Disaster Recovery: A Review of the United States Disaster Assistance Framework;written by Gavin Smith and published by the Public Entity Risk Institute. Details available here.
University of Memphis. The “Phases” of Emergency Management (46 pp.) and one on The Recovery Phase of Emergency Management (35 pp.). University of Memphis, Center for Advanced Intermodal Technologies. The author is Dr. Malcolm E. Baird; both papers are dated January 2010. Posted 4/22/11.
Assoc. of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) in CA has an excellent set of resources re recovery. 3/2/11
State of Florida. Post-Disaster Redevelopment Planning. Issued October, 2010; 158 pages. Excellent, comprehensive planning guidance for long-term recovery.
House Subcomiitte on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management. Five years After Katrina: Where Are We and What Have We Learned for Future Disasters. Sept. 22. The file is 158 pp.
Copy of GAO's slide presentation at Higher Education Conference, June 9, 2010 on Long-Term Recovery from Disaster. (24pp.)
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FEMA. Recovery Resources Available, April 2010.
Draft version of the National Disaster Recovery Framework (Feb. 5, 2010),released by the Dept. of Homeland Security.
Input to the NDRF: Report of an workshop held by HUD/DHS (Jan. 12, 2010), regarding private sector input to the NDRF.
Institute for Sustainable Communities. Sustainable Development and Long-Term Disaster Recovery.
Some selected comments on the NDRF:
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Recent Items:
EmergencyMgmt.com (12/17/09) Long-Term Recovery Needs Coordination, Deserves More Attention. Feature article (2 pp.) on the website of this online magazine.
Claire B. Rubin (July 2009) titled Long-Term Recovery from Disasters; The Neglected Component of Emergency Management in Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.
Misc. Documents:
Daniel Alesch et al. (2009) Managing for Long-Term Community Recovery in the Aftermath of Disaster. Paperback book, 200 pp. Available from PERI. Just released, a practical guide for community officials. Based on years of field work, this is a useful book.
Post-Hurricane Ike Studies:
City of Galveston, Recovery Plan. April 10, 2009, The local plan for recovery.
City of Galveston's Recovery Information website.
Two recent studies on the impact of Hurricane Ike: one done by the State of Tx and the other done by FEMA.
(As of 2/24/09)
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Natural Hazards Observer (Jan. 2009) Toward a National
Disaster Recovery Act of 2009. Excellent article by Ken
Topping, addressing a very important need.
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Other Documents:
FEMA. Hurricane Ike Impact Report. (Jan. 2009). This is the
"first-ever attempt to comprehensively compile the damage
assessment and impact information of federal, state, and local governments for use in the long-term recovery process."
GAO. Disaster Recovery; Past Experiences Offer Insights for Recovering from Hurricanes Ike and Gustav and Other Recent Natural Disasters.(Sept. 27, 2008). GAO-08-1120. 41pp. This
report is rather disappointing, in terms of offering insights and
guidance to public officials charged with recovery from Hurricanes Gustav and Ike.
Rev. 7/2/11
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To contribute, comment, or ask questions, please write to the Project Manager.
This project was created and is managed by Claire B. Rubin, President of Claire B. Rubin & Associates. She thanks the Public Entity Risk Institute for their funding support to creat this site initially.
Photo Credit: FEMA/DHS
8/18/2011
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