Project Scope

A broad range of topics and considerations are involved in increasing resilience to hazards and disasters at the national scale, including the integration of roles, responsibilities, and governance through the federal, state, local, and community levels.  To bound the broad range of topics and produce a report with high levels of utility, the committee may opt to develop some of the study findings in the context of one or more exemplars or case studies that can provide both sufficient detail and the potential for substantive and directly applicable recommendations.  The committee may present its assessments, conclusions, and recommendations in terms of the following:

A framework for improving coordination and organization among the various entities that have roles in all phases of disasters, which could include:

• Identifying leadership protocol;
• Articulating the roles and responsibilities across these entities; and
• Determining successful practices, as well as means to improve upon those practices;
• Assessment of  progress towards successful recovery from a disaster;
• Expectations for disaster resilience; and
• Cross-cutting topics, such as critical infrastructure, insurance and reinsurance, and ways that hazards cascade into disasters or catastrophes. 

Project Staff

Lauren Augustine-Alexander 
Director, Disasters Roundtable
Email: LEAlexander@nas.edu

Eric Edkin
Program Assistant
Email: EEdkin@nas.edu 

Elizabeth A. Eide                       
Study Director
Email: EEide@nas.edu 

Neeraj P. Gorkhaly
Research Associate
Email: NGorkhaly@nas.edu

Center photo credit:
U.S. Geological Survey
Department of the Interior/USGS
U.S. Geological Survey/photo by H.G. Wilshire