Innovative Community Responses to Disaster

Brent D. Hales is Associate Dean of Extension in the Centre for Community Vitality at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA. His primary area of research is the adoption innovation-based community and economic development and entrepreneurship.Norman Walzer is Senior Research Scholar in the Centre for Governmental Studies at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA.James R. Calvin is an Associate Professor in the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

• 1. Community responses to disasters: a foundation for recovery 2. Moving forward in Sierra Leone: community-based factors for postconflict development 3. The road to recovery from a natural disaster: voices from the community 4. Community capitals and disaster recovery: Northwood, ND recovers from an EF 4 tornado 5. Untapped: elderly civic engagement in the rebuilding of the Mississippi Gulf Coast 6. Digging deeper: participation and non-participation in post-disaster community recovery 7. Climate change, food security, and sustainable development: a study on community-based responses and adaptations in British Columbia, Canada 8. Community recovery, a new value proposition for community investment

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