About
PURPOSE:
I write this blog to call attention to the long-term recovery process after disasters. It’s my attempt to provide informal educational resources that may be useful for both researchers and practitioners.
I share the sentiment from this Ken Burns quote:
The great arrogance of the present is to forget the intelligence of the past.
The postings provide information about current disaster events and also disaster recovery news (such as newly released reports from government agencies), with comments, opinions, and an occasional burst of outrage.
CONTACT INFO:
The webmaster is Claire B. Rubin; her company website is Claire B. Rubin & Associates, LLC. She has 35 years of experience in the fields of emergency management and homeland security. Ms Rubin is responsible for the content and the mechanics of the blog.
New: For those willing to support the blog effort, please mail a check to:
Claire B. Rubin
The Recovery Diva
P.O. Box 2208
Arlington, VA 22202
Our original sponsor: The Disaster Bookstore, an online source of high-quality but low cost books and related products.
Rev. 2/12/13
Sent you a check. Couldn’t make the PayPal or online credit card payment function. Thanks for all your good and useful work. – Ken Curtin, Federal Disaster Recovery Coordinator, Region 2
http://crisiscommscp.blogspot.com/2011/12/18-on-list-if-content-is-king-then-diva.html
See nice comments about this blog from Patrice Cloutier, on Dec. 7, 2011.
I am very appreciative of these disaster recovery resources and their being made available in one spot. Having worked in Southeast Louisiana since Katrina, I have long noted that such a resource would be a tremendous boon to practitioners and academics working in the field. Besides that the resource you are providing with this blog – offering people needing answers to recovery-related questions the ability to post questions and receive assistance finding answers is indispensible to the practitioner community. Since time is always of the essence, this is a terrific help in beating the clock and finding the ‘real deal’ fast.
Many thanks to the Diva!