Compounding Disasters in Gulf Coast Communities 2020-2021 Impacts, Findings, and Lessons Learned (2024) / Chapter Skim
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6 Conclusions: Reducing Compounding Disaster Risk by Addressing Vulnerabilities and Exposure and Building Adaptive Capacities
6 Conclusions: Reducing Compounding Disaster Risk by Addressing Vulnerabilities and Exposure and Building Adaptive Capacities
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Disaster recovery processes and the funds they make available offer a potential opportunity to address vulnerabilities and reduce the impact of future disaster outcomes. However, the benefits of mobilized recovery funding rarely manifest among the vulnerable.
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The Committee on Compounding Disasters in Gulf Coast Communities, 2020–2021, recognizes that transdisciplinary research and applied science in disaster resilience continues to advance rapidly in the wake of recent major events in the United States and around the world. This report is intended not only to contribute to the evidence base being generated by these efforts but also to support calls for community-guided action aimed at reducing systemic vulnerabilities, mitigating risk, and increasing adaptive capacities that enable communities to handle the complex challenges that confront them today and those likely to arise in a more climate-uncertain tomorrow.
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, let alone the co-occurrence of mul tiple events. Advancing adaptive capacity involves understanding how disaster events impact specific localities and funding locally led, long term planning for risk reduction and climate adaptation programs.
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Investments into building physical capacity to withstand haz ards are essential, but the strengthening of adaptive capacity, including formal and informal relationships among community stakeholders, is equally foundational to disaster resilience. The New Scale and Temporal Scope of Compounding Disasters Conclusion 4: Perception and understanding of risk are commonly grounded in past experience, leading to complacency in preparation and mitigation.
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Better preparation for future com pounding events requires incorporation of compound event risk assess ments, multisector collaboration, and improved risk communication. The multiple levels of a participatory information-sharing approach will increase understanding of the unique needs of socially vulnerable groups, enhance transparency, and reduce the potential for misinformation.
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Conclusion 8: Pervasive mental health issues from compounding disasters undermine the adaptive capacity of communities to withstand and effec tively recover from disruptive events. Information-gathering session panelists spoke extensively about the negative mental health effects of compounding disasters on survivors, especially for specific subpopulations like first responders and vol unteers.
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COVID-19 restrictions forced rapid innovations, creating more efficient ways to share critical data digitally and greater agility in delivering services virtually -- adaptive shifts that were invaluable to service continuity when storms disrupted physical operations. How ever, as discussed in Chapter 4, processing federal disaster recovery assistance requests and insurance claims virtually caused errors and inefficiencies for survivors.
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Local-level participatory planning processes that routinely engage and collaborate with socially vulnerable communities marginalized by income; education; age; ethnicity/race; representation in policy, governance, and recovery planning; gender; sexual identity; and/or medical risk and who are disproportionately affected by compounding disasters will more effectively guide and prioritize efforts to reduce potential impacts and concurrently build adaptive capacity. Conclusion 13: Stronger mechanisms are essential to translate lessons recog nized from prior experience into lessons learned and implemented.
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Information-gathering session panelists highlighted the need to incorporate equity into the disaster recovery process to better assist marginalized, socially vulnera ble community members.
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