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Disaster Recovery (disaster + recovery)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Humanities and Social Sciences80%

Selected Abstracts

Urban disaster recovery: a measurement framework and its application to the 1995 Kobe earthquake

DISASTERS, Issue 2 2010
Stephanie E. Chang
This paper provides a framework for assessing empirical patterns of urban disaster recovery through the use of statistical indicators. Such a framework is needed to develop systematic knowledge on how cities recover from disasters. The proposed framework addresses such issues as defining recovery, filtering out exogenous influences unrelated to the disaster, and making comparisons across disparate areas or events. It is applied to document how Kobe City, Japan, recovered from the catastrophic 1995 earthquake. Findings indicate that while aggregate population regained pre-disaster levels in ten years, population had shifted away from the older urban core. Economic recovery was characterised by a three to four year temporary boost in reconstruction activities, followed by settlement at a level some ten per cent below pre-disaster levels. Other long-term effects included substantial losses of port activity and sectoral shifts toward services and large businesses. These patterns of change and disparity generally accelerated pre-disaster trends. [source]

A practical way to manage IT costs

JOURNAL OF CORPORATE ACCOUNTING & FINANCE, Issue 5 2005
Timothy Iijima
Information technology (IT) consumes 4 percent of a typical large company's revenue. And these days, companies are under tremendous pressure to manage IT costs,while also handling new concerns about disaster recovery, security, and regulatory compliance. That's tough, concedes the author of this article. But he offers a tested, practical strategy to get the job done. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source]

When the Levee Breaks: Treating Adolescents and Families in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

JOURNAL OF MARITAL AND FAMILY THERAPY, Issue 2 2008
Cynthia L. Rowe
Hurricane Katrina brought to the surface serious questions about the capacity of the public health system to respond to community-wide disaster. The storm and its aftermath severed developmentally protective family and community ties; thus its consequences are expected to be particularly acute for vulnerable adolescents. Research confirms that teens are at risk for a range of negative outcomes under conditions of life stress and family disorganization. Specifically, the multiple interacting risk factors for substance abuse in adolescence may be compounded when families and communities have experienced a major trauma. Further, existing service structures and treatments for working with young disaster victims may not address their risk for co-occurring substance abuse and traumatic stress reactions because they tend to be individually or peer group focused, and fail to consider the multi-systemic aspects of disaster recovery. This article proposes an innovative family-based intervention for young disaster victims, based on an empirically supported model for adolescent substance abuse, Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT; Liddle, 2002). Outcomes and mechanisms of the model's effects are being investigated in a randomized clinical trial with clinically referred substance-abusing teens in a New Orleans area community impacted by Hurricane Katrina. [source]

Anthropology in the Public Sphere, 2008: Emerging Trends and Significant Impacts

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 2 2009
Melissa Checker
ABSTRACT The themes, trends, and significant events of 2008 demonstrate that anthropology has established a new foothold in the public sphere,one that makes the most of novel forms of communication to reach far beyond the ivory tower to disseminate knowledge widely and freely. This review focuses on six topical areas of robust anthropological research in 2008 that also addressed some of the year's most pressing problems and issues, including the following: (1) war and peace; (2) climate change; (3) natural, industrial, and development-induced disaster recovery; (4) human rights; (5) health disparities; and (6) racial understanding, politics, and equity in the United States. It concludes by addressing some emerging issues in 2009 that especially require anthropological attention and insight, if we are to move beyond "business as usual."[Keywords: practicing anthropology, public anthropology, 2009 trends, anthropological impacts] [source]