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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Boxes -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Recovery, Resilience, Vulnerability, and Justice -- 1.1 Applying a Justice Paradigm -- 1.2 Conceptualizing Justice -- 1.3 Disaster Vulnerability and Resilience -- 1.4 Deserving Victims and Post-Disaster Fraud -- 1.5 Survivor Agency -- 1.6 Social Capital and Collective Efficacy -- 1.7 Public Policy and Legislation -- 1.8 Implementation Challenges -- 1.9 Disaster Risk Reduction and Creation -- 1.10 Disparate Outcomes -- 1.11 Resilience for Whom? -- 1.12 Defining Just Recovery -- References -- Chapter 2: Deserving Victims and Post-Disaster Fraud -- 2.1 Deserving Victims -- 2.2 Duplication of Benefits and Appeals -- 2.3 Deserving Victims, Fraud, and the Corrosive Community -- 2.4 Deserving Corporations -- 2.5 Government Corruption -- 2.6 Deserving Victims, Post-Disaster Fraud, and Justice -- References -- Chapter 3: Survivor Agency -- 3.1 Survivor Agency -- 3.2 Collective Efficacy and Social Capital -- 3.3 Reclaiming Agency -- 3.4 Survivor Agency and Justice -- References -- Chapter 4: Public Policy and Legislation -- 4.1 US Disaster Policy -- 4.2 Federalism -- 4.3 Federal Disaster Programs -- 4.4 Human Rights and Disaster Recovery -- 4.5 Public Policy, Legislation, and Justice -- References -- Chapter 5: Implementation Challenges -- 5.1 Program Implementation -- 5.2 Implementation of Existing Policies and Programs -- 5.3 Limitations of Current Programs and Policies -- 5.4 Using Current Policies and Regulations to Promote Just Outcomes -- 5.5 Implementation Challenges and Justice -- References -- Chapter 6: Disaster Risk Reduction and Creation -- 6.1 Disaster Risk Creation -- 6.2 The Safety Premium -- 6.3 Considering Justice in Resilience -- References -- Chapter 7: Disparate Outcomes -- 7.1 Poverty and Economic Hardship -- 7.2 Impacts to Public Housing -- 7.3 Renters.

Institutional and personal timelines are constantly placed in tension by hurricanes, from decisions regarding preparedness and evacuation, to recovery and hazard mitigation decisions. Government timelines for evacuation, for example, must allow sufficient time for the large scale movement of a population; but, individually, evacuation timelines are impacted by a myriad of personal decisions including caregiving concerns and employment concerns, both of which tend to push the decision making window further out. Another example is in recovery, where institutional timelines for recovery assistance, spread out across several agencies and timescales, do not readily align with personal and family decision-making timelines in which returning to a sense of normalcy is prioritized highest. These varying timelines result in complications with the marrying of various sources of assistance and lead to both unnecessary confusion and also missed opportunities to maximize recovery assistance. In hazard mitigation, the fact that the majority of funds are available after damages have occurred already creates an inverted timeline in which preventative actions are taken after the fact, but the delays inherent to the management of the programs also create extensive delays to family recovery timelines.

AbstractNatural hazard mitigation is a recent field in name only. For decades various professionals have been practicing hazard mitigation: for example, emergency managers have been working with architects and city planners to update building codes for disaster-resistant construction, civil engineers have been working with local officials to design flood-resistant urban drainage systems, and foresters have been working with state officials to enact more effective prescribed burning practices. Yet most often, natural hazard mitigation has taken place as isolated activities scattered within the daily duties of diverse professions – an accidentally cross-disciplinary effort recognized as vitally important to protect individuals and communities, yet not recognized as its own multidisciplinary field. The crucial importance of natural hazard mitigation requires a more coherent approach, with consistent and accessible technical information and training, formal and informal discourse among hazard mitigation professionals, interaction with a greater public awareness of the social components, and recognition of hazard mitigation as a profession in its own right. Simultaneously, hazard mitigation professionals need to strengthen their multidisciplinary tendencies and continue to collaborate with other key fields, such as public health and the various sciences. Today many professionals are starting to bridge the gaps between disaster risk reduction, hazard mitigation, and climate adaptation. This article discusses the benefits of emergency management professionals working with others in community partnerships to achieve resilience

The Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management series deals with a wide range of issues relating to global environmental hazards, natural and man-made disasters, and approaches to disaster risk reduction. As people and communities are the first and the most important responders to disasters and environment-related problems, this series aims to analyse critical field-based mechanisms which link community, policy, and governance systems. Justice, Equity and Emergency Management takes the principles proposed in Disaster Recovery Through the Lens of Justice and applies a justice and equity lens across all phases of emergency management, focusing on key topics such as hazard mitigation, emerging technologies, long-term recovery, and others. The authors in this volume interrogate the applicability of the principles to technological innovation, indigenous peoples, persons with access and functional needs, agricultural disasters, and several other contexts. It is our hope that this effort will lead us closer to truly operationalizing and applying these principles in a way that leads to systemic change and better outcomes.

"This book examines the role of the private sector in emergency management and how that role is changing through private sector intersections with government, government agencies, and the public sectors in all phases of emergency management. It particularly focuses on the areas in which government regulations and guidelines promote or encourage private sector involvement, and looks at best practices for publicâprivate partnerships as well as some of the common pitfalls of the contracting model."-- Amazon.

This open access book explores the intersection of property law, relocation, and resettlement processes in the United States and among communities that grapple with migration as an adaptation strategy. As communities face the prospect of relocating because of rising seas, policy makers, disaster specialists, and community leaders are scrambling to understand what adaptation pathways are legally possible. While in its ideal application, law functions blindly and without variation, the authors find that legal contradictions come to bear on resettlement processes and place certain communities further in harm's way. This book will unearth these contradictions in order to understand why successful community-based resettlement has presented such a challenge to communities that are experiencing increasing land deterioration as a result of climate change.