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Emergency response or long‐term resilience? Extreme events challenge water utilities and their communities
Author(s) -
Brown Erica,
Ternieden Claudio,
Metchis Karen,
BellerSimms Nancy,
Fillmore Lauren,
Ozekin Kenan
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.5942/jawwa.2013.105.0121
Subject(s) - tidewater , resilience (materials science) , natural disaster , term (time) , emergency response , community resilience , disaster response , environmental resource management , environmental planning , emergency management , natural (archaeology) , geography , environmental science , political science , engineering , archaeology , physical geography , medicine , glacier , physics , quantum mechanics , redundancy (engineering) , meteorology , medical emergency , law , reliability engineering , thermodynamics
From the Russian River Basin in California to Tidewater Virginia, communities in watersheds across the country hit by natural disaster have recovered and increased resiliency through common strategies for collaborative recovery and preparation for future events.