Sustainable Communities After Disasters
2015
This report provides guidance on responding and rebuilding the health, resilience, and sustainability of communities after disasters. The scope of the report is intentionally broad, with the aim of fostering the integration of health considerations into recovery decision making across a range of disciplines and stakeholder groups. Disasters often impact fundamental elements of a community—physical infrastructure, health and social services, social connectedness—that affect the health of its residents. Accordingly, the recovery period, with its attendant influx of resources and synchronization of planning processes, presents an important opportunity to redesign physical and social environments in a manner that will improve a community’s long-term health status while simultaneously reducing its vulnerability to future hazards.
Sustainable Communities After Disasters
Source:
Healthy, Resilient, and Sustainable Communities After Disasters: Strategies, Opportunities, and Planning for Recovery. National Academies Press 2015. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/18996.