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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Recent Additions:

NEW: Community Economic Recovery Guidebook: Safeguarding your Economy from Disaster. A 20 page handbook, recently issued by the State of Wisconsin. Sept. 25. A useful addition to the thin collection of recovery guidance available.

Congression Research Service Report: Financing Recovery After a Catstrophic Earthquake or Nuclear Power Incident. CRS Report R 41968; August 25, 2011.

New Book: Planning for Post Disaster Recovery: A Review of the United States Disaster Assistance Framework, by Gavin Smith. To be published by Island Press.

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.

Copy of GAO's slide presentation at Higher Education Conference, June 9, 2010 on Long-Term Recovery from Disaster. (24pp.)
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New: FEMA. National Disaster Recovery Framework, www.fema.gov, Sept. 23, 2011.

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Sponsor Information:

THE DISASTER BOOKSTORE
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P.O. Box 2208
Arlington, VA 22202
claire at disasterbookstore dot com

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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.

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