Disaster Response and Recovery: Strategies and Tactics for Resilience, 2nd Edition

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PROMOTING RECOVERY AND MITIGATION

Disaster Assistance and Vulnerability Reduction

Starting Point

Pretest to assess your knowledge on how to promote recovery and mitigation.Determine where you need to concentrate your effort.

What You'll Learn in This Chapter

• The purpose, types, and methods to access individual assistance
• The categories of public assistance
• The steps to obtain recovery resources for your community
• The potential for disagreement during recovery
• The special issues that accompany recovery including fraud, preservations of historic buildings, and protection of the environment
• How to reduce vulnerability after a disaster

After Studying This Chapter, You'll be Able To

• Examine the goals and categories of public assistance.
• Help eligible applicants seek different types of federal disaster relief.
• Establish a disaster recovery center.
• Determine what possible conflicts could occur among the actors involved in recovery.
• Analyze your community's vulnerability to fraud, the loss of historic buildings, and damage to the environment from hazards.
• Examine what measures can be taken to decrease future losses.

Goals and Outcomes

• Evaluate the process through which individual assistance may be obtained.
• Compare and contrast categories of public assistance.
• Synthesize the procedures for obtaining public assistance.
• Predict conflict during recovery among internal and external actors.
• Argue for greater resources for emergency management using windows of opportunity.
• Assess special ...