Disaster Recovery Through the Lens of Justice - Hardcover

by Alessandra Jerolleman (Author)

CONTENTS

1. Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 Applying a Justice Paradigm

1.2 Conceptualizing Justice

1.3 Disaster Vulnerability and Resilience

1.4 Deserving Victims and Post-Disaster Fraud

1.5 Survivor Agency

1.6 Social Capital and Collective Efficacy

1.7 Public Policy and Legislation

1.8 Implementation Challenges

1.9 Disaster Risk Reduction and Creation

1.10 Disparate Outcomes

1.11 Resilience for Whom?

1.12 Defining Just Recovery

2. Chapter 2 Deserving Victims and Post-Disaster Fraud

2.1 Deserving Victims

2.2 Duplication of Benefits and Appeals

2.3 Fraud, and the Corrosive Community

2.4 Deserving Corporations

2.5 Government Corruption

2.6 Deserving Victims, Post-Disaster Fraud and Justice

3. Chapter 3 Survivor Agency

3.2 Collective Efficacy and Social Capital

3.3 Reclaiming Agency

3.4 Survivor Agency and Justice

4. Chapter 4 Public Policy and Legislation

4.1 U.S. Disaster Policy

4.2 Federalism

4.3 Federal Disaster Programs

4.4 Human Rights and Disaster Recovery

4.5 Public Policy, Legislation and Justice

5. Chapter 5 Implementation Challenges

5.1 Program Implementation

5.2 Implementation of Existing Policies and Programs

5.3 Using Current Policies and Regulations to Promote Just Outcomes

5.4 Implementation Challenges and Justice

6. Chapter 6 Disaster Risk Reduction and Creation

6.1 Disaster Risk Creation

6.2 The Safety Premium

6.3 Considering Justice in Resilience

7. Chapter 7 Disparate Outcomes

7.1 Poverty and Economic Hardship

7.2 Impacts to Public Housing

7.3 Renters

7.4 Displacement

7.5 Just Recovery

8. Chapter 8 Conclusion: Resilience for Whom?

8.1 Revisiting Just Recovery

8.2 Person and Community Centered Recovery

Back Jacket

There has been increased attention to the topics of disaster recovery and disaster resilience over the past several years, particularly as catastrophic events such as Hurricane Katrina and Superstorm Sandy have brought to light the increasing vulnerability of so many communities. This manuscript brings together existing research, along with policy analysis, in order to look at disaster recovery through the lens of justice. This includes understanding the mechanisms through which vulnerability is exacerbated, and the extent to which the regulations and agency cultures drive this outcome. While existing analyses have sought to understand the particular characteristics of both resilient and vulnerable communities, there have been few attempts to understand the systemic inequities and injustice that is built into United States disaster policies, programs, and legislation. This manuscript thus begins from the understanding that social and economic structures, including land use policies and historic practices such as redlining, have concentrated hazard risk into vulnerable zones whose inhabitants do not benefit from the very policies that create and increase their risk.

Author Biography

Alessandra Jerolleman is an Assistant Professor at Jacksonville University, USA, and an Applied Researcher at the Lowlander Center in Louisiana, USA. Dr. Jerolleman is a subject matter expert in climate adaptation, hazard mitigation, and resilience with a long history of working in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.