Assessing the Impact of Municipal Government Capacity on Recovery from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico

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dc.contributor.authorRoberts, Patrick S.en
dc.contributor.authorRosas, Etienneen
dc.contributor.authorLauland, Andrewen
dc.contributor.authorGutierrez, Italoen
dc.contributor.authorNuñez-Neto, Blasen
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-14T23:41:11Zen
dc.date.available2022-01-14T23:41:11Zen
dc.date.updated2022-01-14T23:41:09Zen
dc.description.abstractA municipality’s level of public engagement and especially community involvement is associated with a greater rate of recovery in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria in 2017. This finding is based on an analysis of the relationship between the capacity of Puerto Rico’s 78 municipal governments and their rates of post disaster-recovery, controlling for both exposure to Maria and pre-storm trends. Municipal capacity for community involvement may help activate social capital and the co-production of disaster recovery. Community involvement may increase trust among local officials and residents, increase government’s knowledge of community priorities, and help residents access federal and state aid. Other measures of management capacity are not consistently associated with a faster rate of post-disaster recovery. The findings suggest that investing in municipal capacity for public engagement as part of disaster preparedness may provide benefits for disaster recovery. For researchers, the combination of original survey data and readily available post-disaster indicators provides a model for assessing recovery after disaster in the short term.en
dc.description.versionSubmitted versionen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102340en
dc.identifier.issueJulyen
dc.identifier.orcidRoberts, Patrick [0000-0002-8920-0396]en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/107668en
dc.identifier.volume61en
dc.relation.urihttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S221242092100306X?via%3Dihuben
dc.subject0502 Environmental Science and Managementen
dc.subject1117 Public Health and Health Servicesen
dc.subject1604 Human Geographyen
dc.titleAssessing the Impact of Municipal Government Capacity on Recovery from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Ricoen
dc.title.serialInternational Journal of Disaster Risk Reductionen
dc.typeArticleen
dcterms.dateAccepted2021-04-10en
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