Increasing National Resilience to Hazards and Disasters The Perspective from the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi: Summary of a Workshop (2011) / Chapter Skim
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Preparing for Hazards and Disasters • Reliability, durability, sustainability, and operational readiness can be seen as guiding principles for critical infrastructure. • Resilience implies the existence of systems to maintain health, such as electronic medical records and accessible primary care.
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• Despite the great needs for expenditures on national resilience, state and federal budget deficits and popular calls for reductions in government spending point toward greater constraints on budgets in the future. Self-Sufficiency in Disasters • Many valuable responses to disasters are based on the initiative and resources of individuals and communities, not governments.
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The Future of Resilience • Although Katrina was one of the largest and most catastrophic events ever to hit the United States, resilience is also important for the smaller and more frequent disasters that will occur in the future. • In the future, many communities could be geographically far flung and linked by communication technologies.
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