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Building Resilience during Recovery: Lessons from Colorado's Watershed Resilience Pilot Program.

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Koebele, EA; Crow, DA; Albright, EA
Published in: Environmental management
July 2020

As the potential for and scope of some types of disasters increases, so too does the need to build greater disaster resilience across the globe. Communities ideally begin building resilience prior to experiencing a disaster in order to reduce negative impacts and ease recovery processes; however, numerous environmental and sociopolitical factors can impede such efforts until a disaster occurs. While the disaster recovery period offers opportunities for communities to build resilience as they replace infrastructure and restore services, a host of new issues arise during this time that can further complicate or delay resilience building. In this study, we highlight the opportunities and challenges inherent at the intersection of disaster recovery and resilience building, which we term the "recovery-resilience nexus." To study this nexus, we analyze a first-of-its-kind disaster recovery program in Colorado, United States, that promotes resilience-building activities in disaster-affected communities by supporting the efforts of place-based watershed coalitions. Although the program faced numerous and interrelated technical, political, and fiscal hurdles, we argue that it provides an opportunity for drawing important lessons about how communities can navigate the recovery-resilience nexus via cross-boundary collaboration and creatively leveraging traditional disaster recovery funding sources to achieve resilience goals.

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Environmental management

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EISSN

1432-1009

ISSN

0364-152X

Publication Date

July 2020

Volume

66

Issue

1

Start / End Page

1 / 15

Related Subject Headings

  • United States
  • Resilience, Psychological
  • Pilot Projects
  • Ecology
  • Disasters
  • Disaster Planning
  • Colorado
 

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Koebele, E. A., Crow, D. A., & Albright, E. A. (2020). Building Resilience during Recovery: Lessons from Colorado's Watershed Resilience Pilot Program. Environmental Management, 66(1), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-020-01296-3
Koebele, Elizabeth A., Deserai A. Crow, and Elizabeth A. Albright. “Building Resilience during Recovery: Lessons from Colorado's Watershed Resilience Pilot Program.Environmental Management 66, no. 1 (July 2020): 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-020-01296-3.
Koebele EA, Crow DA, Albright EA. Building Resilience during Recovery: Lessons from Colorado's Watershed Resilience Pilot Program. Environmental management. 2020 Jul;66(1):1–15.
Koebele, Elizabeth A., et al. “Building Resilience during Recovery: Lessons from Colorado's Watershed Resilience Pilot Program.Environmental Management, vol. 66, no. 1, July 2020, pp. 1–15. Epmc, doi:10.1007/s00267-020-01296-3.
Koebele EA, Crow DA, Albright EA. Building Resilience during Recovery: Lessons from Colorado's Watershed Resilience Pilot Program. Environmental management. 2020 Jul;66(1):1–15.
Journal cover image

Published In

Environmental management

DOI

EISSN

1432-1009

ISSN

0364-152X

Publication Date

July 2020

Volume

66

Issue

1

Start / End Page

1 / 15

Related Subject Headings

  • United States
  • Resilience, Psychological
  • Pilot Projects
  • Ecology
  • Disasters
  • Disaster Planning
  • Colorado