NEW Human Links to Coastal Disasters

One of the keys to managing coastal hazards effectively is mitigation. Human vulnerability and its links to the environment (physical and natural)—or those circumstances that place people at risk while reducing their means of response—are an integral concern in the development and evaluation of disaster policies. Mitigation initiatives must reach individual households to help strengthen their existing homes and communities.

Building upon the framework for community planning developed in the Heinz Center report The Hidden Costs of Coastal Hazards (2000), this new volume reviews the human vulnerability of coastal communities with emphasis on identification of high-risk populations; human impacts of disasters, including the mental and physical health effects on individuals; and the impacts of coastal disasters on the social institutions that make up our coastal communities.  Human Links to Coastal Disasters makes recommendations toward the goal of more disaster-resistant communities, beginning at the level of individual households and neighborhoods.

For the Human Links to Coastal Disasters report please visit our publications page.

For more information contact Sheila David, Project Manager