@article {1273274, title = {Preparing in Advance for Disaster Recovery}, year = {2011}, abstract = {

Douglas Ahlers, Arnold M. Howitt, and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard, October 2011

In the past decade, the world has looked in horror at many heart-wrenching scenes of human suffering and physical devastation in Asia\ {\textendash}\ including the tsunami of 2004, China{\textquoteright}s earthquake of 2008, Pakistan{\textquoteright}s floods of 2010, and Japan{\textquoteright}s earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear accident this year. Unfortunately, these will not be the last of such tragic events, given Asia{\textquoteright}s significant exposure to natural disasters, increasingly complex and interdependent social and economic systems, intensifying urbanisation in risk-exposed locations, and its vulnerability to the impact of climate change.

}, url = {http://www.hks.harvard.edu/var/ezp_site/storage/fckeditor/file/pdfs/centers-programs/programs/crisis-leadership/Advance\%20Recovery\%20in\%20G-I-A\%20Dec\%202011\%20(reduced).pdf}, author = {Douglas Ahlers and Arnold M. Howitt and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard} }