Building community disaster resilience through private-public collaboration
By: Committee on Private-Public Sector Collaboration to Enhance Community Disaster Resilience ; Geographical Sciences Committee, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies
Contributors: National Academies Press (U.S.)
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9780309162630
Subjects: Emergency management; Hazard mitigation; Public-private sector cooperation
Description: Assesses the current state of private-public sector collaboration dedicated to strengthening community resilience, identifies gaps in knowledge and practice, and recommends research that could be targeted for investment. Specifically, the book finds that local-level private-public collaboration is essential to the development of community resilience. Sustainable and effective resilience-focused private-public collaboration is dependent on several basic principles that increase communication among all sectors of the community, incorporate flexibility into collaborative networks, and encourage regular reassessment of collaborative missions, goals, and practices.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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