![]() We studied three of the most affected counties and seven communities.This study was funded by the National Science Foundation. Along with that, there were some dam breakages, and overland flooding. In September of 2013, in the front range of Colorado in some areas 20 inches of rain fell over a three-day period. So about floods not only in terms of the amount of rainfall, and infrastructure, but cast more broadly in terms of risks across sectors of a community. ![]() There are issues of affordable housing that floods only make worse, issues of healthcare, after a disaster, it’s known issues of domestic abuse increase.” Whereas some communities thought, “Hey maybe we should think about how we’re living on the land, what risks beyond floods should we think about. Some communities viewed the failures of extreme flood in terms of failures of infrastructure … so thinking about the flood in terms of dams and roads and thinking, “Oh, if we replace these, if we will rebuild these, we’ll be fine.” On how some communities respond to disaster And what we found is people want their lives to get back to “normal” as soon as possible, while that may not be the most resilient solution moving forward.Īnd so there seems to be tension between more deliberative processes: analyzing past policies, looking for policy failures, involving the public, thinking about how things could be improved/strengthened/made more resilient. ![]() In the research we’ve conducted with collaborators at University of Colorado, we interviewed staff, town officials, and the public in seven communities. ![]() On the tension between recovering quickly and recovering well from a natural disaster Hidden Hurricane Lessons for PolicymakersĪlbright is assistant professor of the practice of environmental science and policy methods at Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment. ![]()
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