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Toward Resilient Communities: Examining the Impacts of Local Governments in Disasters: Examining the Impacts of Local Governments in Disasters
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Community disaster resilience recently has been utilized frequently and become a relevant framework for scholars and practitioners in the field of disaster management. This book contributes to the growing literature on community resilience with a specific emphasis on resiliency of business community in relation to local governance. The book not only provides theoretical perspectives on resilience but also offer practical insight for professionals in the field.

Naim Kapucu, University of Central Florida

Understanding business disaster planning is an important topic not only to small, medium, and large companies, but also to local government officials. This text gives prime examples of the impact of planning on the community as a whole.

Stacey Mann, Jacksonville State University

Toward Resilient Communities

In June 2011, the city of Minot, North Dakota, sustained the greatest flood in its history. Rather than buckling under the immense weight of the flood on a personal and community level, government, civic groups, and citizens began to immediately assess and address the events impacts. Why did the disaster in Minot lead to government and community resilience, whereas during Hurricane Katrina, the nonresilience of the government and community of New Orleans resulted in widespread devastation?

This book seeks to answer that question by examining how local government institutions affect pre- and post-disaster community and business resilience. Using both survey methods and interviews, Atkinson analyzes the disasters that occurred in New Orleans, Louisiana; Palm Beach County, Florida; and Minot, North Dakota. He argues that institutional culture within local government impacts not only the immediate outcomes experienced during response, but the long-term prognosis of recovery for a community outside the walls of city hall. Understanding tendencies within a community that lead to increased vulnerability of both individuals and businesses can lead to shifts in governmental/community priorities, and potentially to improved resilience in the face of hazard events.

Relevant to scholars of public administration, disaster researchers, and government officials, this book contributes to a growing literature on community and business resilience. It explores not just the devastation of natural disasters, but profiles governmental impacts that led to responsive and able processes in the face of disaster.

Christopher L. Atkinson has taught courses in the School of Public Administration at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida. He received his Ph.D. from Florida Atlantic University. His research interests include public management and policy studies, neo-institutionalism, regulation, and emergency management.

Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Policy

1 A Complexity Theory for Public
Policy

Gktu Morl

2 Network Governance in
Response to Acts of Terrorism

Comparative Analyses

Naim Kapucu

3 Leadership and Policy InnovationsFrom Clinton to Bush

Countering the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction

Joseph R. Cerami

4 Disaster Resiliency

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Edited by Naim Kapucu, Christopher V. Hawkins, Fernando
I. Rivera

5 Paying Our High Public
Officials

Evaluating the Political Justifications of Top Wages in the Public Sector

Teun J. Dekker

6 The Politics of Regulatory
Reform

Stuart Shapiro and Debra Borie-Holtz

7 Block Granting Medicaid

A Model for 21st Century Health Reform?

Edward Alan Miller

8 Toward Resilient Communities

Examining the Impacts of Local Governments in Disasters

Christopher L. Atkinson

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Atkinson, Christopher L.
Toward resilient communities : examining the impacts of local governments in disasters / Christopher L. Atkinson.
pages cm (Routledge research in public administration and public policy ; 8)
1. Disaster reliefGovernment policyUnited States. 2. Local governmentUnited States. 3. Disaster reliefGovernment policy United StatesCase studies. I. Title.
HV555.U6A85 2013
363.3480973dc23
2013027176

ISBN: 978-0-415-65803-4 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-07630-9 (ebk)

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The common trait that binds society together now is change, and not always change for the better; risk is all around. The public sector is becoming more aware of the need for risk mitigation. Local governments are under greater scrutiny, and are expected to do more with less. To complicate matters, for a significant portion of the population government continues to be looked at as something of a problema leaky bucket that wastes resources and in return gives negligible benefit. Government is exposed to withering criticism from the same public that demands and depends upon its services, creating an untenable situation that is ultimately harmful to governments capacity to respond effectively when called upon. Unfair or not, the government-as-problem mindset typically holds until some terrible event occurs, when government must respond and tie a community, state, or nation together.

The criticism is far-reaching and difficult for the public sector to process. The additional expectations of the public during disaster obscure the clear requirement for public workers to attend to their own needs if they are to be effective in their jobs. Recognition that individual skills, strength, and courage play a role in the quality of institutional responses and in the capacity of government is needed. Public administrators must be accountable, but also responsibleto profession, ones own conscience, or the public interest, or all three. To this end, a strong moral compass can guide those who serve the greater good in times of trial; a belief in the role and responsibility of the public sphere, and in limiting or alleviating the suffering of others above self, are central considerations.

Public institutions embody the best and worst of their employees while conveying broader public values. Camilla Stivers suggested that administrators must use their best judgment together with their sharpest technical skills and deepest sense of what the law demands-the best mind joined with the best heart. This notion is an unenforceable obligation, and one that cannot be solved by diversity or preparedness training.through trauma, stabilize them, and cause them to act responsibly. Public employees are often at their best when society is at its worst.

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