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Compounding Disasters in Gulf Coast Communities 2020-2021 Impacts, Findings, and Lessons Learned (2024) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix C: Commissioned Paper Abstracts
Pages 279-280

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... , is important for understanding the larger implications, history, and future of compounding disasters in Gulf Coast communities. In the United States, since COVID-19 spread nationwide, other disasters have become compounding disasters as they have overlapped in time and space with COVID-19, leaving emergency managers, government officials, businesses, and residents to respond to COVID-19 and other disasters simultaneously -- a situation complicated by local cultural, historical, political, and economic contexts.
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... Nevertheless, social vulnerability in the Gulf Coast region continues to be approximately 25 percent higher than in the ­conterminous United States as a whole. Outcomes from this study may be used to assist policymakers, emergency managers, and stakeholders in developing or improving existing hazard mitigation plans, including building community resilience to hazards in the context of a changing climate and society.
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