Planning for Community Resilience: A Handbook for Reducing Vulnerability to Disasters

This book is a painstaking attempt to capture in detail the many elements that go into Planning for Community Resilience. The objectives of Community Resilience are essentially post Hyogo Framework for Action which means that these attempts are still very young and there is much to be learned as we move into the Sendai decade which basically calls for the anticipation of the future and its modification through action in the present. The subject matter of the book is therefore exciting and contributes towards the building of the future.While the content of the book is relevant and timely its arrangement can be much better. This is possibly because the concepts underlying resilience are not very clear and have not been optimally configured as yet. Resilience belongs to the field of Disaster Risk Reduction and Disaster Risk Reduction is a part of Disaster Management and there is to my knowledge no systematic approach to Disaster Management s yet and there is not likely to be in the near future since the number of systems thinkers and those able to master the process perspective appear to be very limited and far from enough to handle this field.The lack of systems thinkers shows throughout the global civilization of the species Homo sapiens and it can only be hoped that the need to generate more such thinkers will be perceived, understood and responded to as soon as possible.

Textbook for a class on Resiliency Planning. Good examples for planning.

The book is brand new and is serving its educational purpose.

I bought this to add to my library at work, as a municipal emergency manager I enjoyed the content and will be able to use some of the lessons to better prepare my community.