Recovering from Disaster A Summary of the October 17, 2007 Workshop of the Disasters Roundtable (2008) / Chapter Skim
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Session I: Perspectives from Research
Session I: Perspectives from Research
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Tribute to Gilbert Fowler White William Hooke, chair of the DR's steering committee and director of the Atmospheric Policy Program at the American Meteorological Society, opened the workshop by indicating that it was just a little over two years ago since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast of the United States and that this was a good time to take stock of how that disaster and other recent experiences are shaping our thinking about the nature and meaning of disaster recovery. He further noted that October 5th marked the first anniversary of the death of geographer Gilbert Fowler White, whose memory the workshop was honoring.
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• Recovery almost necessarily involves inefficiencies. Alesch indicated that the next steps in his collaborative work on community disaster recovery involves completing a book aimed at helping local government managers deal with the challenges of disaster recovery, and building the research data base on the topic and devising and testing rigorous hypotheses to advance knowledge in the field.
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