Measuring, monitoring and evaluating post-disaster recovery: A key element in understanding community resilience
Abstract
The process of community recovery in the aftermath of a disaster is complex, long lasting, resource intensive, and poorly understood. Insights described here result from an ongoing project that aims to monitor, quantify, and evaluate the process of post-disaster recovery for two events, Hurricane Charley (2004, Charlotte County and Punta Gorda, Florida) and Hurricane Katrina (2005, Harrison County and Biloxi, Mississippi). A mixed-methods approach using statistical data, interviews, and remote sensing-derived data is applied in an effort to understand as well as monitor, measure and evaluate the recovery process and its outcomes. Observations associated with the post-disaster course of moving residents from temporary to transitional, and ultimately permanent housing serves as the focus for this paper. This work represents a discrete portion of a multi-sector project where Economic, Environmental, Housing/Infrastructure, and Social elements of community recovery are explored. Understanding community recovery can inform community resilience-building strategies. © ASCE 2011.
Publication Title
Structures Congress 2011 - Proceedings of the 2011 Structures Congress
Recommended Citation
Bevington, J., Hill, A., Davidson, R., Chang, S., Vicini, A., Adams, B., & Eguchi, R. (2011). Measuring, monitoring and evaluating post-disaster recovery: A key element in understanding community resilience. Structures Congress 2011 - Proceedings of the 2011 Structures Congress, 2033-2043. https://doi.org/10.1061/41171(401)177
