A Workshop on the Theory of Disaster Recovery

这是一个关于灾难恢复理论的为期两天半的研讨会。关于灾难恢复的研究已经做了很多，但很少有人将研究结果整合成一个整体理论，以帮助塑造未来的研究并确定优先顺序，并帮助那些可以在受灾害影响的社区使用这些研究的人。研讨会将要求灾难恢复领域的领先研究人员帮助形成这样的理论，并为进一步的灾难恢复研究制定五年研究计划。恢复是应急管理中最不被了解的方面。研究人员没有完全了解参与恢复工作的所有不同类型的组织和利益集团的作用。他们也不了解这许多不同的群体是如何相互作用的，或者政府或社区是否能够适当地照顾更脆弱的人(老年人、体弱者、少数民族和穷人)。大多数地方政府也没有灾难恢复的计划，也没有州或联邦政府的政策来帮助制定和协调灾难恢复过程。在所有三级政府工作的从业者也不理解灾难恢复。卡特里娜飓风表明，当我们无法理解一个社区、一个地区和一个州的恢复需求时，是多么危险。尽管卡特里娜飓风在近五年前袭击了许多社区，但许多社区仍然在重建家园、企业和基础设施以及社区意识的困难中挣扎。自卡特里娜飓风以来，许多学者再次开始关注灾难恢复，以便提高对社区如何才能最好地恢复的知识。这些学者现在还需要看看这项最新研究的总体结果，看看是否有共同的主题和想法可以从这些研究努力中得出。然后，他们将能够确定有关复苏的知识是否存在差距，并确定仍需做些什么才能更好地了解复苏。最后，研讨会的成果将帮助那些在地方、州和联邦政府工作的人改进他们的灾难恢复政策，并增加像卡特里娜飓风这样的另一场灾难永远不会再次发生的可能性。

This is a project to hold a 2 ½ day workshop on the Theory of Disaster Recovery. A lot of research has been done on disaster recovery, however little has been done to pull together the research results into an overall theory that could help shape and prioritize future research and to help those who can use it in communities affected by disasters. The workshop will ask the leading researchers in disaster recovery to help shape such a theory and develop a five year research plan for further disaster recovery research.Recovery is the least understood aspect of emergency management. Researchers do not fully understand the roles of all the different types of organizations and interest groups that are involved in recovery. They also do not understand how these many different groups interact with each other or if the people that are more vulnerable (old, the infirm, minorities and the poor) can be properly taken care of by the government or the community. Most local governments also do not plan for disaster recovery and there is no state or federal government policy to help frame and to coordinate the disaster recovery process.Recovery is also not understood by the practitioners that work in all three levels of government. Hurricane Katrina illustrated how dangerous it is when we fail to understand the recovery needs of a community, a region, and a state. Although Katrina struck almost five years ago many communities still struggle with the hardships of rebuilding homes, businesses, and infrastructure, as well as a sense of community. Since Hurricane Katrina many scholars have started looking at disaster recovery again so that the knowledge of how communities can recover best can be improved. These same scholars also now need to look at the overall results of this latest research and to see if there are common themes and ideas that can be drawn from these research efforts. They will then be able to determine if there are gaps in the knowledge there is about recovery and determine what still remains to be done to understand it better. Finally, the workshop results will help those that work in local, state, and federal government improve their disaster recovery policies and improve the chances that another catastrophe like Katrina will never happen again.