Community Disaster Recovery and Resiliency exploring global opportunities and challenges Edited By DeMond S. Miller and Jason David Rivera

Contents: Front cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Editors; Contributors; Introduction: The UniqueOpportunities andChallenges from a Social Scientific Perspective; Part I: Opportunities Iand Challengesfor Building aCommunity-Based Institutional Infrastructure; Chapter 1: Disaster Preparednessamong Community-Based Organizations inthe City and County ofSan Francisco: Serving the Most Vulnerable; Chapter 2: Safe Schools forthe Community:A Case and Tool for Disaster-Proof Schools. Chapter 3: Opportunities andChallenges of BatteredWomen's Shelters in the Aftermath of a DisasterPart II: Opportunities and Challengesfor Social and Cultural Revitalization; Chapter 4: Disaster Resilience:Exploring All Hazardsand Cross-Cultural Perspectives; Chapter 5: Community Resiliencein New Orleans East:Deploying the CulturalToolkit within a Vietnamese American Community; Chapter 6: Social Capital after a Disaster: A Case Studyof the 2008 Flood in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Part III: Opportunities and Challenges for Economic Recovery. Chapter 7: Natural Disasters, Climate Change, and Recovery: TheSustainability Question in Post-Ivan GrenadaChapter 8: InformationCommodificationand Social Capital in Local Street Markets; Chapter 9: Role of Information and CommunicationTechnologies in DisasterRehabilitation inAgriculture and Ecotourism:Bukit Lawang, Indonesia; Part IV: Opportunities and Challengesfor Public Health and Safety; Chapter 10: The Irrawaddy Crisis:Myanmar and CycloneNargis--Challenges and Opportunities for Change; Chapter 11: Challenge of theWorried Well in theEvent of a Pandemic or Terrorist Attack. Chapter 12: Aborigines' and MigrantSettlers' Crisis andReconstruction Efforts inTwo Yoruba Communities in Southwestern NigeriaChapter 13: An Assault on theCommunity's Fabric:Tragedy, Challenges, and Opportunities of School Shootings; Part V: Opportunities Vand Challenges for Housing and Housing Policy; Chapter 14: Housing Reconstructionin Post-Mitch Nicaragua:Two Case Studies from the Communities of San Dionisio and Ocotal; Chapter 15: Housing Reconstructionin Tamil Nadu: TheDisaster after the Tsunami in India; Chapter 16: Building Earthquake-Resilient Communities. Part VI: Opportunities and Challengesfor Public -PrivatePartnerships in the Twenty-First CenturyChapter 17: Bridging the Public-PrivatePartnership in Disaster Management in Bangladesh; Chapter 18: Building Disaster-Resilient Communities:The Public-Private Partnership Approach; Chapter 19: Patterns of Public-Private Partnershipin CommunityReconstruction: The Caseof Taiwan after the Chi-Chi Earthquake; Part VII: Opportunities and Challenges for Disaster Mitigation. Chapter 20: How Nations Should Develop DisasterPlans for Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery: LessonsLearned from Major International Disasters.