Two years of hurricanes: Dauphin Island's resilience and future sustainability

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dc.contributor.authorFlint, R. W.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialDauphin Islanden
dc.coverage.spatialAlabamaen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T19:31:54Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T19:31:54Zen
dc.date.issued2008en
dc.description.abstract"Hurricane Ivan hit the Gulf of Mexico Coast in 2004 and severely impacted a number of areas including Dauphin Island (DI), a barrier island off the coast of Alabama (USA). Significant physical, economic, social, and environmental destruction resulted. In 2005 Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, impacting Texas to Florida. Again, DI experienced large loss of beachfront, homes, businesses, and general community disruption. Following successive disasters, DI leaders decided to reinvent their community in a sustainable way. A strategic planning effort was mounted that was initiated, driven, and completed by the community of more than 1,500 stakeholders. Five E's Unlimited of Seattle, WA provided leadership, technical expertise, and facilitation to DI in its actions to become more sustainable and resilient than it had been in the past. Major emphasis of this strategic examination was placed upon shifting their tax base from one dominated by expensive rental home income taxes to a more diverse small business community. In addition, the community conducted an intensive examination into its internal assets (environmental, cultural, historic, etc.) in order to reverse their significant rural economic leakage patterns. During this 12 month strategic planning effort, the Community Capitals Framework or Cornelia Flora was used to understand how communities function with regards to sustainable community economic development and guide consensus-building and decision-making toward an improved, more sustainable community with a resilient future. This presentation will show (1) how the community capitals (model) framework was used to identify the different kinds of assets that DI possessed and (2) illustrate through the "spiraling capital assets" model how the community was able to trace its points of decline and plot its strategic improvement milestones to reach a more sustainable and resilient future." (conference abstract)en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier3576en
dc.identifier.citationPresented at the XVI International Conference of the Society for Human Ecology: "Integrative thinking for complex futures: Creating resilience in human-nature systems", Bellingham, WA, 10-13 September 2008en
dc.identifier.other3576_Warren_Flint_DI_Resiliency_Presentation.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/67654en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
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dc.subjectSocial impactsen
dc.subjectSocial capitalen
dc.subjectFisheriesen
dc.subjectEconomic policyen
dc.subjectEnvironmental impactsen
dc.subjectLocal policyen
dc.subjectEcotourismen
dc.subjectEnterprise developmenten
dc.subjectNatural resource-based enterpriseen
dc.subjectEconomic impactsen
dc.subjectSustainabilityen
dc.subjectCommunity developmenten
dc.subjectRural planningen
dc.subjectSocial capitalen
dc.subjectPhysical capitalen
dc.subjectFinancial capitalen
dc.subjectPolitical capitalen
dc.subjectNatural capitalen
dc.subjectGovernanceen
dc.titleTwo years of hurricanes: Dauphin Island's resilience and future sustainabilityen
dc.typePresentationen
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