A flood disaster isn’t over when the flood water has subsided or the water has been pumped out of an affected region. Experience reveals that the impact of any disaster will be felt for weeks, months and sometimes even years to come. An appropriate response to the immediate disaster is therefore not just eliminating the cause, but rather ensuring the mitigation of medium and long term adverse effects.
Post-disaster recovery therefore invariably presents a number of challenges and dilemmas, and understanding these issues in advance can assist decision-makers and professionals to better navigate the recovery process. Depending on the nature and scope of the adverse event at hand, the post-disaster phase can be very intensive and complex. A coastal flood in the Netherlands would be a very extensive and complex event. There’s a multitude of issues that need to be dealt with and the recovery time will take years. The goal of the symposium was to exchange knowledge on this subject with different parties (internally as well as externally).
A brief recapitulation of the symposium and in particular of the workshops that were held can be found here. The presentations of the keynote and workshops can be found in the attachments of this page.
Presentations
- Keynote Kathleen Tierney
- Workshop Creating a process to learn from disasters, presentation Jack Harrald
- Workshop Creating a process to learn from disasters, presentation Greg Shaw
- Workshop Creating a process to learn from disasters, presentation Liesel Ritchie
- Workshop Whole community approach, presentation Lucia Velotti
- Workshop Community disaster recovery: Dimensions, domains and critical issues, presentation Kathleen Tierney
