Increasing National Resilience to Hazards and Disasters: The Perspective from the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi. Summary of a Workshop

摘要

The Committee on Increasing National Resilience to Hazards and Disasters, which was established by the National Research Council to examine how the nation can increase resilience to hazards and disasters at the federal, state, local, and community levels, held the first of three site visits and workshops in New Orleans and along the Mississippi Gulf Coast on January 18-21, 2011. The purpose of the meeting was to review the effects of Hurricane Katrina and other natural and human-induced disasters on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi and to learn more about the resilience of those areas to future disasters. This workshop summary has been prepared by the workshop rapporteur with the assistance of the committee's staff as a factual summary of what occurred during the site visits and at the subsequent workshop on critical aspects of resilience in New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The planning committee's role was limited to planning and convening the workshop. The statements made are those of the rapporteur or individual site visit or workshop participants and do not necessarily represent the views of all participants, the planning committee, or the National Academies. For the purposes of its three regional meetings, the committee defined resilience as 'the ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from, or more successfully adapt to actual or potential adverse events.'