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Hi, I have 3 of my classmates’ posts. I need you to respond to each one separately. Also, one
source at least for each one of them. Don’t write about how good their posts or how bad. All
you need to do is to choose one point of and explore it a little bit with one source support
for each response. The paper should be APA style. The question was: Recovery is an
essential part of disaster management. However, it is not well supported. I am an elected
official that sees far more value in response assets than recovery needs. Change my mind
on the need for recovery. What role does community and economic development play in
recovery? This is the first classmate SA post need to respond: Community development
plays a key role in recovery based on the fact that the first responders in the event of a
disaster are the communities. Community-based approaches have been in existence for a
long time and it is through the evolution of the state government that new technologies
have been introduced to assist communities in an organized way in the event of a
disaster. Since the communities are the first responders, the core of any risk reduction
approach should be the community-based risk reduction. Community-based disaster risk
management is often defined as an approach taken to reduce vulnerabilities and to
strengthen the capacity of individuals so that they can effectively cope with hazards. By
doing so, they aim to hasten recovery, minimize human suffering and reduce vulnerabilities
while increasing the capabilities of vulnerable communities and groups for the prevention
or minimization of loss and damage to life. This ensures that community participation is
enhanced before a disaster occurs and they can be involved actively during the relief, search
and rescue, and post-disaster recovery. Economic development also plays a key role in
recovery. It is widely known that disasters result in a very high cost of damage to families,
business and governments. As a result, economic development will be deprived of funds to
clean up and recover after a disaster. Disasters often damage the infrastructure leading to a
series of indirect and direct losses. This will, in turn, result in a disruption of the services
and production thus crippling the entire economy. As a result, most governments put into
consideration economic development when developing a comprehensive disaster
mitigation policy. Therefore, this measure will result in economically resilient and
sustainable communities ready to recover economically after a larger-scale disaster.
References Emergency Management Australia (2003): Community Development in
Recovery from Disaster. Australian Emergency Manual Series. Shaw R. (2016):
Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction. Oxford Research Encyclopedia Of Natural
Hazard Science. This is the 2nd classmate ABDU H post need to respond: Managing disaster

2. recovery remains an integral part of helping communities handle serious emergencies. In
most cases, the recovery process will involve and engage external service responders to a
significant degree. Despite the fact that some people will argue that response assets have
more value, recovery needs are more important. Recovery focuses on safety and wellbeing
of the victims and other people affected to minimize the emergency itself. It eliminates or
reduces the threat of more injuries or damages and re-establishes external services to help
victims resume a normal life. Recovery tries to build social capital, special networks, and
emergency response teams needed for post-disaster recovery and resilience (Sadri et al.,
2018). Community and economic development play an important role in the recovery
process. The recovery and rebuilding after an emergency require local opinions, assets, and
resources to establish a community-based collaborative action (Kusago, 2019). The
community builds a variety of networks which connect people. Many of the people from
these networks have goodwill towards other members and in some instances, they have the
skills, motivation, and relationships to aid the community engagement in the recovery
process. Economic development leverages private resources, together with public capital
and community-based experience, to provide basic needs, drive growth, and offer
opportunities during the recovery (Haddow, Bullock, & Coppola, 2017). At the early stages
of post-disaster recovery, grants can help eligible organizations create economic recovery
and resiliency plans for the community through funded disaster recovery coordinators.
Often in parallel with planning and technical assistance, economic development helps in
capitalizing or recapitalizing to provide gap financing, support new developments, finance
construction of new or repair of infrastructure, as well as enhancements, to diversify
economies and strengthen resilience to future disasters. References Abramson, D. M.,
Grattan, L. M., Mayer, B., Colten, C. E., Arosemena, F. A., Bedimo-Rung, A., & Lichtveld, M.
(2015). The resilience activation framework: a conceptual model of how access to social
resources promotes adaptation and rapid recovery in post-disaster settings. The journal of
behavioral health services & research, 42(1), 42-57. Haddow, G. D., Bullock, J. A., & Coppola,
D. P. (2017). Introduction to emergency management. Butterworth-Heinemann. Sadri, A. M.,
Ukkusuri, S. V., Lee, S., Clawson, R., Aldrich, D., Nelson, M. S., & Kelly, D. (2018). The role of
social capital, personal networks, and emergency responders in post-disaster recovery and
resilience: a study of rural communities in Indiana. Natural hazards, 90(3), 1377-1406 This
is the 3rd classmate TAR post need to respond: Recovery is the last phase of disaster
management. It ensures that the society or community affected by a disaster has resumed to
normalcy. Community and economic development play a critical role in this process.
Whenever an accident happens, the community is the first one to learn about it. Because of
this, the community is in a position to respond before government machinery. Therefore,
the community acts as a first responder.Additionally, people residing in the community are
the most vulnerable (Miller, 2009). For this reason, there should be adequate preparedness
at the community level. When this is done, the community will be able to respond to
emerging disasters quickly and adequately. This reduces the vulnerability of the community
members. Moreover, the community maintains an early-warning system. Essentially,
recovery from a disaster is easy when individuals in the society are aware of an emergency.
A warning system helps to ensure promote this awareness. A community needs to develop

3. connections or networks that will maintain the early warning systems (Glarum, Birou &
Cetaruk, 2010). Once the warnings produced by this system reach individuals at risk, those
individuals respond to the disaster appropriately. Nevertheless, the warnings can only be
adequate when there are trusted partnerships and cooperation between community
leaders. The community usually participates in the recovery from disaster through
community empowerment. Typically, when an emergency occurs, it is the community that
feels its impacts most. In this regard, the community empowerment improves the capacity
of the community to threats (Glarum, Birou & Cetaruk, 2010). Unfortunately, most of the
community empowerment programs associated with disaster recovery have short-term
goals. Therefore, they are not sustainable. To increase sustainability, the government and
non-governmental organizations should build the local capacities of local people based on
long-term goals. A community evaluates the disaster that has happened. Subsequently, it
informs the recovery strategy to be used. In this regard, the disaster management team
seeks the experiences of the community members. After analyzing these experiences, it
comes up with decisions and plans to manage the situation (Miller, 2009). Therefore, the
community plays a major role in providing information that will be used in devising an
appropriate approach for maintaining recovery. Furthermore, economic development plays
an essential role in recovery from a disaster. When an emergency occurs, the economy is
destroyed. Subsequently, this affects the economic well-being of society. To recover from
this, the disaster management team should focus on economic development (Glarum, Birou
& Cetaruk, 2010). This can be done by compensating. The damages that people have gone
following the disasters. This enables people to get back to normalcy. Indeed, a community
that is less economically developed is vulnerable to disaster.Economic development
increases the community preparedness to disaster. Economic development improves
community capacity to respond to emergencies. This is because there will be mechanisms in
place to mitigate adverse events. More so, there is excellent communication among
members of the community. Hence, it becomes easy to coordinate recovery processes. This
implies that government and non-government organizations should focus on developing the
economy of the community as part of disaster management (Miller, 2009). Indeed, a
community that is economically developed is more organized and this reduces the risk of
disaster. Moreover, members who are economically developed will be able to recover
quickly from a disaster than those who are poor. References Glarum, J.F., Birou, D., &
Cetaruk, E. (2010).Hospital emergency response teams: triage for optimal disaster
response.Burlington, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann. Miller, D.A. (2009).Disaster
response.Detriot: Greenhaven Press.