Frances L. Edwards is Deputy Director of the National Transportation Security Center at the Mineta Transportation Institute and professor and director of the Master of Public Administration program at San Jose State University.

• Chapter 1: Long-Term Recovery and Housing: Public Policy and Household ImpactsFrances L. EdwardsChapter 2: Pressure Points: A Systems Approach to Long-Term Recovery in South LouisianaJohn J. Kiefer, Alessandra Jerroleman, Jerry V. GravesChapter 3: Reliance on Government in Times of Disaster: Exploring the Influence of Bonding Social Capital in the United StatesJason D. RiveraChapter 4: Long Term Recovery for the Small Business CommunityAlessandra Jerroleman, Jerry V. Graves, Miriam BelblidiaChapter 5: Dominica: The World’s First Resilient Country?Denise D. P. ThompsonChapter 6: Cultural Competence in Long Term Recovery: Lessons from the 2010 Haitian EarthquakeChrista L. RemingtonChapter 7: ‘House Keeping’: Managing Post-Disaster Housing Recovery Long TermN. Emel Ganapati and Anuradha Mukherji

Long Term Recovery, Public Policy, and Housing, edited by Frances Edwards, experienced emergency manager and scholar, and contributions by emerging and senior scholars in the field, addresses one of the core elements of community resilience based on major disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes. The book provides major challenges and sound housing recovery policies and implementation strategies based on field research of extreme disasters. Housing is addressed as a key measure and priority for long-term community recovery, as a complex policy problem, and needed carefully designed public programs to enable communities to rebuild after disasters for resilience and sustainability.