Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative - Couverture souple

National Academies; Policy And Global Affairs; Committee On Science, Engineering, And Public Policy; Committee On Increasing National Resilience To Hazards And Disasters

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0309261503 ISBN 13 : 9780309261500

Editeur : National Academies Press, 2012

Synopsis

Disaster Resilience addresses the broad issue of increasing the nation s resilience to disasters. This book defines national resilience, describes the state of knowledge about resilience to hazards and disasters, and frames the main issues related to increasing resilience in the United States. It also provide goals, baseline conditions, or performance metrics for national resilience and outlines additional information, data, gaps, and/or obstacles that need to be addressed to increase the nation s resilience to disasters. Additionally, the book s authoring committee makes recommendations about the necessary approaches to elevate national resilience to disasters in the United States.

Enhanced resilience allows better anticipation of disasters and better planning to reduce disaster losses rather than waiting for an event to occur and paying for it afterward. Disaster Resilience 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. Increasing disaster resilience is an imperative that requires the collective will of the nation and its communities. Although disasters will continue to occur, actions that move the nation from reactive approaches to disasters to a proactive stance where communities actively engage in enhancing resilience will reduce many of the broad societal and economic burdens that disasters can cause.

A propos du livre

Enhanced resilience allows better anticipation of disasters and better planning to reduce disaster losses rather than waiting for an event to occur and paying for it afterward. Disaster Resilience 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. Increasing disaster resilience is an imperative that requires the collective will of the nation and its communities. Although disasters will continue to occur, actions that move the nation from reactive approaches to disasters to a proactive stance where communities actively engage in enhancing resilience will reduce many of the broad societal and economic burdens that disasters can cause.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: National Academies Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0309261503
• ISBN 13: 9780309261500
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 260
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible