Hazards Center seeks recovery experts

Citation

(2001), "Hazards Center seeks recovery experts", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 10 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/dpm.2001.07310dab.005

Hazards Center seeks recovery experts

Hazards Center seeks recovery experts

As part of its project, "Developing Guidance and Expertise on Sustainable Recovery from Disaster", funded by the Public Entity Risk Institute, the Natural Hazards Center is compiling a list of people from throughout the USA with experience, knowledge or special expertise in disaster recovery and/or community sustainability. The center envisions a central source of information to which a city manager, public works official, citizen activist, or other concerned person can turn for advice, information, or even on-site recovery assistance. Specifically, the database will include experts who can help localities understand, plan for, and execute holistic recovery activities and policies that will enhance a community's sustainability, including resilience in the face of hazards, environmental quality, liveability, economic vitality, and social equity. It will include names, contact information, and brief background data (such as area of expertise and prior disaster experience). Areas in which experts are being sought are: recovery, hazard mitigation, inter-generational equity, social equity, economic development, business recovery, environmental quality, consensus building, public participation, liveability, smart growth, and related topics. Having one's name listed in the database does not constitute a commitment to participate in any future disaster recovery. However, the information may be made accessible, perhaps via a Web site, at a later date. Persons who would like to be listed in the database, or who know of other persons or groups who ought to be, should e-mail the Hazards Center's Program Manager, Jacki Monday, at jacque.monday@colorado.edu for more information.

(Natural Hazards Observer, March 2001)