A home near Galveston, Texas, is completely destroyed after Hurricane Ike. Tourist communities like Galveston face the need to recover both year-long and seasonal housing after disaster. ©Patrick McKay, 2008.
We’ve released a trio of Research Counts pieces since our last DR, and we wouldn’t want you to miss a word of this series that explains the latest disaster research in easy-to-use language. If you haven’t already, check out the most recent additions:
Intricate and Uneven: Housing Recovery in Coastal Communities
By Sarah Hamideh
Tourism-based coastal economies have different recovery needs following disaster. Learn more about what these communities need and resources available to restore them to their pre-disaster status.
Value-Added: Analysis of Social Return on Investment for FEMA’s Whole Community Approach
By Liesel Ritchie, Carolyn Kousky, Kathleen Tierney and Simone Domingue
Quantifying the return on investment in disaster mitigation was a powerful tool for sparking action. Now a recent FEMA project outlines how the same might be done for broader preparedness efforts.
A World of Disasters: Knowing More and Losing More
By Ian Burton
Disaster scholars often ruminate over why—when we have so much knowledge—we seem to make frustratingly little headway in stanching disaster impacts. In this Research Counts, longtime researcher Ian Burton puts forth a few thoughts as to why that's the case.
And there's more where that comes from! Explore the entire series and watch for upcoming work on the Research Counts page.