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Ashley D. Ross has done those of us who think resilience has meaning in disaster recovery a great favor. This book establishes the definition of resilience in a nuance and important way. No longer are we left with a rudimentary discussion of resilience. Ross has attached methodological heft to the meaning of resilience. Going forward, we can discern just what can be termed a resilient response to disaster and what is not.

Roland V. Anglin, Rutgers University

Ashley D. Ross is a rising star among the next generation of scholars who study natural hazards and disasters. Her book represents an important contribution to the field, effectively filling a niche in how emergency managers and elected officials perceive their own communitys disaster resilience relative to an empirical assessment of local resilience in these same jurisdictions. Her findings are particularly relevant to our emerging understanding of this often misunderstood concept, while providing key insights into how we can improve our national policy in order to better assist local communities achieve this still elusive aim.

Gavin Smith, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill & Executive Director,
Department of Homeland Security Coastal
Hazards Center of Excellence

Local Disaster Resilience

In the past decade, the Gulf Coast statesTexas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Floridahave experienced a series of natural and manmade disasters, including the unprecedented events of Hurricane Katrina and the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, that not only devastated the region but also called into question our national emergency management system. In response to the missteps and failures in management surrounding these focusing events, government agencies and policy practitioners have looked to recast emergency management. Community resilience has emerged as a framework to facilitate improvements in preventing, managing, and recovering from disasters. Despite the promotion of resilience, a shared understanding of the concept and how it is applied on the local level where it is purported to develop remains limited. How is disaster resilience perceived by local government officials and translated into disaster management practices?

Ashley D. Ross systematically explores disaster resilience through secondary data sources and original surveys of county emergency managers and elected municipal officials. She creates and analyzes a measure of capacity for disaster resilience that spans 75 Gulf Coast counties. Additionally, she assesses perceptions and experiences of local officials across 56 counties and 122 municipalities in the Gulf Coast region. The findings of these analyses shed light on how resilience is understood by local officials and on the attributes and circumstances that facilitate the development of resilience on the local level.

Local Disaster Resilience fills a critical gap in the literature by applying existing theories and models to a region that has experienced the worst disasters the United States has faced in the past decade. It also provides tools to advance our knowledge of disasters in an interdisciplinary manner by offering county-level data and teaching guides on Gulf Coast disaster resilience.

Ashley D. Ross is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Sam Houston State University. Her research focuses on comparative public policy with an emphasis on local governments. In addition to this work on local disaster resilience, her research has examined decentralization in Latin America, education policy in Texas, and environmental policy among municipalities in Costa Rica.

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3 Leadership and Policy InnovationsFrom Clinton to Bush
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7 Block Granting Medicaid
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8 Toward Resilient Communities
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9 Local Disaster Resilience
Administrative and Political Perspectives
Ashley D. Ross

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ross, Ashley D.
Local disaster resilience : administrative and political perspectives /

Ashley D. Ross.

pages cm (Routledge research in public administration and public

policy)

1. Environmental disastersGovernment policyGulf Coast (U.S.)

2. Natural disastersGovernment policyGulf Coast (U.S.)
3. Emergency managementGulf Coast (U.S.) 4. Disaster relief
Gulf Coast (U.S.) 5. Crisis management in governmentGulf Coast
(U.S.) 6. Gulf Coast (U.S.)Environmental conditions. I. Title.

GE146.R67 2013
363.345610976dc23
2013027662

ISBN: 978-0-415-82333-3 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-55191-2 (ebk)

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This book is dedicated to my grandmother, Tanalita Palm, who taught me at an early age to explore the world through reading and writing. I know she would have been pleased to read this.

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Acknowledgments

The research reported in this book was funded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Summer Research Program for Minority Serving Institutions. Support for fieldwork was also given by Texas A&M UniversityCorpus Christi through faculty research enhancement grants.

Thank you to Gavin Smith, Thomas Richardson, and Robert Whalin, DHS Coastal Hazards Center of Excellence (CHC), for their belief in the project and thoughtful guidance along the way; to Luis Cifuentes and Ron George, Texas A&M UniversityCorpus Christi (TAMUCC) Research Office, for generously extending institutional backing of this research; and to Joseph Jozwiak, TAMUCC Department of Social Sciences, for contributing departmental resources to free up my time to devote to this work.

I also thank the following individuals for their administrative support of the project: Patti Obenour, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education; Anna Schwab, DHS CHC at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; LaShon Lowe, DHS CHC at Jackson State University; and Maricela Alexander, TAMUCC College of Liberal Arts.

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