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Red River Basin Disaster Information Network
On-Line Workshop
November 18, 1999 -- 12:00 Noon CST
Impacts of Flood Recovery Assistance on
Basin-wide Disaster Resilience
Mary Fran Myers
Co-Director
Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center
University of Colorado, Boulder
with
Jacquelyn Monday
Program Manager
Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center
University of Colorado, Boulder
and
Emdad Haque
Professor of Geography
Brandon University
Brandon, Manitoba
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Figure 1, Slide 1, Slide 2
Ideally, the recovery period after a major flood is a time to focus attention on enhancing flood resilience -- a community's ability to bounce back quickly after a flood without permanent, intolerable damage, or disruption, and without large amounts of outside assistance.
The IJC's International Red River Basin Task Force commissioned a study to evaluate the extent to which the "window of opportunity" following the 1997 floods was used by government and private agencies to enhance one component of disaster resilience, that of structures.
We were very pleased to present one of the study's principal authors, Mary Fran Myers, to summarize the major findings and recommendations of the study, and to respond to questions and comments, assisted by Jacquelyn Monday and Emdad Haque.
Download An Assessment of Recovery Assistance Provided after the 1997 Floods in the Red River Basin: Impacts on Basin-wide Resilience (PDF File)
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About Mary Fran Myers
Mary Fran Myers is the Co-Director of the Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The Center serves as a national clearinghouse for research data and information dealing with the social, political, economic, and behavioral aspects of natural disasters and programs to reduce damage from them. A major goal of the Center is to bridge the gap between the hazards researchers and practitioners from around the globe. For more than two decades, the Center has influenced both hazards research and the direction of local, state, federal and private-sector activities to mitigate damages from disasters in the U.S. In addition, under Myers' direction, the Center is currently exploring the feasibility of creating and then deploying expert teams to communities impacted by disaster to provide assistance to local officials in sustainable recovery.
Prior to joining the Center in 1988, Myers worked in the state water resource agencies of both Illinois and North Dakota and helped coordinate the National Flood Insurance Program in those states. She was appointed by Governor Romer to serve on the Colorado Natural Hazards Mitigation Council's Executive Committee in 1991, and she is a member of the advisory committee of the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center at Texas A&M University. She holds a Masters degree in Public Administration from the University of Illinois.
About Jacquelyn Monday
Jacquelyn Monday is a private consultant specializing in flood hazards and related policy issues. She conducts research and writing for clients seeking to better understand those problems of environmental risk and ways they can cope with it. Besides working with the Natural Hazards Center, she also has done projects for the National Park Service; the Federal Emergency Management Agency; the City of Arvada, Colorado; Louisiana State University, and the Association of State Floodplain Managers. Over the last three years much of that work has focused on the challenges of long-term local sustainability in the face of disasters.
Before beginning her own business in 1990, she coordinated local compliance with the National Flood Insurance Program for the Federal Emergency Management Agency in Washington, D.C., and served as the Chief of the Research Publications branch of the Louisiana Geological Survey. Monday holds a B.A. and M.A., both in Geography, from the University of Colorado.
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