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Community Disaster Resilience: A Summary of the March 20, 2006 Workshop of the Disasters Roundtable (2006)

Mitigation and preparedness efforts, when they are informed by science, are crucial in promoting community disaster resilience. Science-based mitigation actions can reduce the impacts of disaster agents on communities. However, since various types of disasters can still occur despite such actions, especially in communities facing multiple hazards, pre-disaster preparedness planning efforts involving all relevant stakeholders are also needed to guide emergency responses and to meet the challenges that mitigation efforts cannot anticipate or overcome. On March 20, 2006 the Disasters Roundtable convened a workshop to focus on community resilience in the face of disaster. Participants focused on the local level, where the greatest impact of disasters is felt, as shown by Hurricane Katrina. The workshop builds on the 12th Disasters Roundtable workshop, "Creating a Disaster Resilient America: Grand Challenges in Science and Technology," which focused on the national level.
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