Do Disasters Lead to Learning? Financial Policy Change in Local Government.
Natural disasters may be windows of opportunity for policy change and learning by local governments, which are the entities primarily responsible for the recovery and rebuilding process after a disaster strikes in the United States. During disaster recovery, local governments are faced with myriad p...
| Published in: | Review of Policy Research Vol. 35; no. 4; pp. 564 - 590 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=131052674&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 131052674 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 1541132X MJJ jtl: Review of Policy Research issn: 1541132X maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Jul2018 vid: 35 iid: 4 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell artinfo: ui: 131052674 10.1111/ropr.12297 ppf: 564 ppct: 26 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 551KB tig: atl: Do Disasters Lead to Learning? Financial Policy Change in Local Government. aug: au: Crow, Deserai A. Albright, Elizabeth A. Ely, Todd Koebele, Elizabeth Lawhon, Lydia affil: University of Colorado Denver Duke University University of Nevada Reno University of Colorado Boulder su: Natural disasters Economic impact Fiscal policy Government policy Local government finance Emergency management finance Public finance policy sug: subj: Natural disasters Economic impact Fiscal policy Government policy Public Finance Activities Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities Other provincial protective services Emergency and Other Relief Services Other federal protective services Other municipal protective services Local government finance Emergency management finance Public finance policy keyword: disaster and risk management environment governance regional governance gobernanza gobernanza local medio ambiente PALABRAS CLAVE: gestión de desastres y riesgos 关键词：灾害和风险管理 区域治理 治理 环境 disaster and risk management environment governance regional governance gobernanza gobernanza local medio ambiente PALABRAS CLAVE: gestión de desastres y riesgos 关键词：灾害和风险管理 区域治理 治理 环境 ab: Natural disasters may be windows of opportunity for policy change and learning by local governments, which are the entities primarily responsible for the recovery and rebuilding process after a disaster strikes in the United States. During disaster recovery, local governments are faced with myriad policy challenges, from technical issues concerning the repair and replacement of infrastructure to broader substantive questions of reducing vulnerability to future hazards. Their actions are constrained by federal and state policies related to disaster recovery, and yet they must make their own decisions regarding disaster recovery finance within those constraints. These decisions may then influence a local government's long‐term fiscal planning, such as their target level of budget reserves, borrowing, categories of spending, and mechanisms to generate revenue. To assess how local governments respond to and learn from fiscal constraints during disaster recovery, we analyze flood recovery in seven Colorado communities in the three counties most impacted by extreme flooding in 2013. Data from in‐depth interviews with local finance personnel and other administrators, budgets, and public documents are used to analyze recovery decisions and postdisaster fiscal policy learning. While most local governments drew instrumental lessons from the disaster experience, such as how to better manage grant reimbursement processes, some also drew broader lessons that may contribute to achieving longer term community resilience, fiscal stability, and disaster preparedness. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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