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Community Management of Natural Hazards

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Encyclopedia of Natural Hazards

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Definition

Community management of natural hazards. Community-based participation in identification, mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery and reconstruction activities related to potential and/or experienced natural hazards.

Introduction

Natural hazard management strategies typically include several broad categories of management. They include hazard identification and mitigation, preparedness (or planning), response, and recovery and reconstruction. These strategies can be viewed as a continuum, with recovery and reconstruction activities ideally resulting in increasingly effective mitigation strategies in advance of the next hazard event.

Historically, the management of natural hazards has been viewed primarily as one of response and recovery, with the responsibility resting largely on state or national government, and with direct planning and participation at the community level largely neglected (e.g., Laughy, 1991). However, as the Organization of American States has...

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  1. Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Desert Research Institute, Nevada System of Higher Education, 755 E. Flamingo Rd, Las Vegas, NV, 89119, USA

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Hartwell, W.T. (2013). Community Management of Natural Hazards. In: Bobrowsky, P.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Natural Hazards. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4399-4_72

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