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Hazard mitigation and sustainable community development

Robert O. Schneider (Robert O. Schneider is Chair, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke, North Carolina, USA.)

Disaster Prevention and Management

ISSN: 0965-3562

Article publication date: 1 May 2002

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Abstract

Emergency management has come to be regarded by many analysts as a critical part of the development of sustainable communities. The emergency management function has been linked to issues such as environmental stewardship and community planning. Especially important is the linkage between hazard mitigation efforts and community planning in the context of building sustainable communities. But this conceptual linkage has been difficult to implement in practice. The resolution of this difficulty and a clarification of the essential linkage of hazard mitigation to community planning will require a broader definition and a reformulation of the emergency management function. It will also require an assessment and the removal of impediments that currently stand in the way of the implementation of this linkage. Practical steps can be taken to begin this important chore.

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Schneider, R.O. (2002), "Hazard mitigation and sustainable community development", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 11 No. 2, pp. 141-147. https://doi.org/10.1108/09653560210426821

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