Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Overview
1: An Overview of Hazards, Vulnerability, and Disasters Michael K. Lindell
2: Impacts on Socially Vulnerable Populations Shannon Van Zandt
3: Risk Communication: A Review and Peek Ahead George Oliver Rogers

Part II: Contributions of Hazard Mitigation Planning to Community Resilience
4: Next Generation Mitigation in a Changing World Jack D. Kartez
5: The Politics and Governance of Mitigation: Considerations for Planning Kristin Taylor and Thomas Birkland
6: A General Framework for Analyzing Planning for Community Resiliency Philip R. Berke and Ward Lyles
7: The Adoption of Hazard Mitigation and Adaptation Policies, Programs, and Actions by Local Jurisdictions along the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts Walter Gillis Peacock, Michelle Annette Meyer, Shannon Van Zandt, Himanshu Grover and Fayola Jacobs
8: Recovery Versus Protection-Based Approaches to Flood Risk Reduction: Working Towards a Framework for More Effective Mitigation in the United States Samuel D. Brody, Wesley E. Highfield, William Merrell, and Yoonjeong Lee
9: Hazard Mitigation and Climate Change Adaptation Himanshu Grover

Part III: Contributions of Emergency Response Planning to Community Resilience
10: Emergency Preparedness and Response Planning Jennifer A. Horney and Garett Sansom
11: Unmet Needs and Community Service Planning for Disasters Sherry I. Bame and Sudha Arlikatti
12: Evacuation Planning Hao-Che Wu, Shih-Kai Huang, Michael K. Lindell
13: Emergency Preparedness and Immediate Response to Disasters: An International Perspective Sudha Arlikatti and Carla S. Prater

Part IV: Contributions of Disaster Recovery Planning to Community Resilience
14: Understanding Disaster Recovery and Adaptation Michelle Annette Meyer
15: The National Disaster Recovery Framework John T. Cooper, Jr. and Jaimie Hicks Masterson
16: Housing Recovery after Disasters Yang Zhang and William Drake
17: Population Displacement Ann-Margaret Esnard and Alka Sapat
18: Business and Economic Impacts and Recovery Yu Xiao
19: Facilitating Quality Design and Community Engagement in Housing Recovery Jaimie Hicks Masterson, Katherine Barbour Jakubcin

Part V: Contributions of Research to Practice
20: Influences of Research on Practice Kenneth C. Topping
21: Incorporating Hazard Mitigation into the Local Comprehensive Planning Process Zhenghong Tang
22: The Role of States in Disaster Recovery: An Analysis of Engagement, Collaboration, and Capacity Building Gavin Smith
23: Recovery Planning with U.S. Cities Laurie A. Johnson
24: Reflections on Engaging Socially Vulnerable Populations in Disaster Planning John T. Cooper, Jr.

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Disaster Resilience emphasizes the intersection of urban planning and hazard mitigation as critical for community resilience, considering the interaction of social, environmental, and physical systems with disasters. The Handbook introduces and discusses the phases of disaster - mitigation, preparedness/response, and recovery - as well as each of the federal, state, and local players that address these phases from a planning and policy perspective. Part I provides an overview of hazard vulnerability that begins with an explanation of what it means to be vulnerable to hazards, especially for socially vulnerable population segments. Part II discusses the politics of hazard mitigation; the failures of smart growth placed in hazardous areas; the wide range of land development policies and their associated risk; the connection between hazards and climate adaptation; and the role of structural and non-structural mitigation in planning for disasters. Part III covers emergency preparedness and response planning, the unmet needs people experience and community service planning; evacuation planning; and increasing community capacity and emergency response in developing countries. Part IV addresses recovery from and adaption to disasters, with topics such as the National Disaster Recovery Framework, long-term housing recovery; population displacement; business recovery; and designs in disasters. Finally, Part V demonstrates how disaster research is interpreted in practice - how to incorporate mitigation into the comprehensive planning process; how states respond to recovery; how cities undertake recovery planning; and how to effectively engage the whole community in disaster planning. The Routledge Handbook of Urban Disaster Resilience offers the most authoritative and comprehensive coverage of cutting-edge research at the intersection of urban planning and disasters from a U.S. perspective. This book serves as an invaluable guide for undergraduate and postgraduate students, future professionals, and practitioners interested in urban planning, sustainability, development response planning, emergency planning, recovery planning, hazard mitigation planning, land use planning, housing and community development as well as urban sociology, sociology of the community, public administration, homeland security, climate change, and related fields.