Private-Public Sector Collaboration to Enhance Community Disaster Resilience: A Workshop Report

摘要

Private sector entities have a role in the safety, security, and resilience of the communities in which they operate. Incentivizing the private sector to expend resources on community efforts remains challenging. Disasters in the United States since 9/11 (e.g., Hurricane Katrina in 2005) indicate that the nation has not yet been successful in making its communities resilient to disaster. The National Research Council (NRC) at the request of the Department of Homeland Security formed an ad hoc committee to assess the current states of the art and practice in private-public sector collaboration dedicated to strengthening community disaster resilience. The committee's charge included organizing a public workshop to explore the following issues: Current efforts at the regional, state and community levels to develop private public partnerships for the purpose of developing and enhancing community preparedness and resilience; Motivators, inhibitors, advantages and liabilities for private sector engagement in private-public sector cooperation in planning, resource allocation and preparedness for natural and man-made hazards; Distinctions in perceptions or motivations between large national-level corporations and the small business community that might influence the formation of private-public sector partnerships, particularly in smaller or rural communities; Gaps in current knowledge and practice in private-public sector partnerships that inhibit the ability to develop collaboration across sectors; Research areas that could bridge these gaps; and design, development and implementation of collaborative endeavors for the purpose of strengthening the resilience of communities to natural and manmade hazards.