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GENERAL INFORMATION:

• Publications of Prof. Ken Mitchell, Rutgers University.
• American Planning Association (1998). Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction, by Jas. Schwab et al.; sponsored by FEMA; 124 pp.
• National Academy of Sciences (2006). Facing Hazards and Disasters; Understanding Human Dimensions. National Academy Press. Available as a free download. Note that  Chapter 4 deals with recovery.

ARTICLES and REPORTS:

• Rubin Recovery Article; ” Long Term Recovery; The Neglected Component of Emergency Management” by Claire B. Rubin, in JHSEM, Vol.6 #46, 2009.

BOOKS and CHAPTERS

• Rubin, Claire B. (Editor).Emergency Management: The American Experience, 1900-2010 (second editon). 2012. The second edition of the award-winning book that features major disasters and their outcomes in the U.S. for more than a century.

• Waugh, William L., Jr., and Kathleen Tierney, eds. Emergency Management: Principles and Practice for Local Government. 2nd ed. Washington, D.C.: ICMA Press, 2007.

• Leonard, H and Howitt, A. Acting in Time Against Disaster: A Comprehensive Risk Management Framework. Advance Recovery and the Development of Resilient Organizations and Societies, in Junreuther, H and M. Useem. Learning from Catrophes: Strategies for Reaction and Response. Wharton School Publishing, 2010.
• WEBSITES:

• www.disasterrecoveryresources.net
  
• 
  http://longtermcommunityrecovery.wordpress.com/tools
  - listing of FEMA recovery resources
• 
  http://www.longtermcommunityrecovery.blogspot.com
  - additional resources
• 
  http://www.planning.org/research/postdisaster/resources.htm 
  - nice list of resources from the Am. Planning Association
•  http://www.planning.org/research/postdisaster/bibliography.htm – annotated bibliography from American Planning Association.
• irevolution.net
• idisaster.wordpress.com

HELP USING SOCIAL MEDIA for DISASTERS

VOSG-Virtual Operations Support Group is a volunteer organization that offers help to communities that have had a disaster to select and use appropriate social media.

See the blog by Kim Stephens called idisaster

CLIMATE CHANGE: 

Report by  World Bank titled ” Investment Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty: Application to Climate Change;” Policy Research Working Paper #6193; Sept. 2012. (44 pp.)

New Climate Risk Tool from MIT; Nov. 8, 2012.

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Rev. 1/8/13