The readings for this week focus on the final component of emergency management, recovery. You will read a short chapter in your text and two papers that address different approaches for using spatial analysis to understand patterns of recovery after major disasters.
As you read, consider the following: How is use of GIS for recovery likely to differ for different kinds of events? What recovery-related GIS issues does your text not cover that ended up being important in the years subsequent to a disaster like Hurricane Katrina?
The two journal articles (this one and the one below) I'm having you read this week focus on very different ways of using GIS to explore longer term recovery from different types of disasters. What advantages or disadvantages do you see in both approaches?
This article presents an approach to spatial analysis of recovery efforts that focuses on the use of Remote Sensing technology and analytical methods. How could this approach be augmented by other data sources or methods to enhance its explanatory capability and utility?
Links
[1] https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog588/sites/www.e-education.psu.edu.geog588/files/file/Stevenson_et_al.pdf
[2] https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog588/sites/www.e-education.psu.edu.geog588/files/file/Wagner_et_al.pdf