Building Community Disaster Resilience through Private-Public Collaboration

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NAS Press, 2011. - 143 p. ISBN: 0309162637 Committee on Private-Public Sector Collaboration to Enhance Community Disaster Resilience, Geographical Science Committee, National Research CouncilAssesses the current state of private-public sector collaboration dedicated to strengthening community resilience, identifies gaps in knowledge and practice, and recommends research that could be targeted for investment. Specifically, the book finds that local-level private-public collaboration is essential to the development of community resilience. Sustainable and effective resilience-focused private-public collaboration is dependent on several basic principles that increase communication among all sectors of the community, incorporate flexibility into collaborative networks, and encourage regular reassessment of collaborative missions, goals, and practices.Contents Preface Acknowledgments Summary Introduction A Conceptual Framework for Resilience-Focused Private-public Collaborative Networks Guidelines forCommunity-Based Private-public Collaboration Challenges to Sustainable Resilience-Focused Collaboration Research OpportunitiesAppendixes Committee Biographies Committee Meeting Agendas