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Disaster-Resistant Community Initiative: Evaluation of the Pilot PhasePrincipal Investigators: Joanne Nigg (PI) and Kathleen Tierney (Co-PI) Study DescriptionIn 1997, the Federal
Emergency Management
Agency began the pilot stage
of Project Impact, a program designed to encourage local communities
to step up their efforts to
contain disaster losses through mitigation and preparedness activities. The
goals of the program were to
mobilize community-level
organizations and resources to
reduce disaster-related
damage and disruption through
the adoption of new loss-
reduction strategies and to
help communities develop
ways of coping with disasters
when they do occur. Using
face-to-face and telephone
interviews and focus group
methodology, DRC
charted the implementation of
Project Impact in the seven
pilot communities and then in ten additttional Project Impact Communities. Study Related Publications2001 Focus Group Report:Disaster Resistant Communities Initiative: Local Community Representatives Share Their Views: Year 3 Focus Group Final Project Report Tricia Wachtendorf and Kathleen J. Tierney. Disaster Research Center University of Delaware, July 2001. Final Project Report #40: Executive Summary: Disaster Resistant Communities Initiative: Evaluation of the Pilot Phase Year 1 Joanne M. Nigg, Jasmin K. Riad, Tricia Wachtendorf, Angela Tweedy and Lisa Reshaur, 1998. 891 kb Final Project Report #41:Disaster Resistant Communities Initiative: Evaluation of the Pilot Phase Year 2 (2000) Joanne M. Nigg, Jasmin K. Riad,Tricia Wachtendorf, and Kathleen J. Tierney 294 kb Final Project Report #42:Executive Summary: Disaster Resistant Communities Initiative: Evaluation of the Pilot Phase Year 2 (2000) Kathleen J. Tierney 87 kb Final Project Report #43: Disaster Resistant Communities Initiative: Focus Group Analysis (2000) Tricia Wachtendorf, Jasmin K. Riad, and Kathleen J. Tierney 358 kb Final Project Report #47: Disaster Resistant Communities Initiative: Local Community Representatives Share Their Views: Year Three Focus Group Final Project Report Tricia Wachtendorf and Kathleen J. Tierney, 2001. 1.83 mb Final Project Report #48: Disaster Resistant Communities Initiative: Assessment of Ten Non-Pilot Communities Tricia Wachtendorf, Rory Connell, Brian Monahan, and Kathleen Tierney, 2002. 416 kb Final Project Report #49 Disaster Resistant Communities Initiative: Assesment of the Pilot Phase-Year-3 Tricia Wachtendorf, Rory Connell, and Kathleen Tierney, with assistance from Kristy Kompanik. 2002. 416 kb |
