Topic 4: Recovery principles and concepts
Holistic approach to recovery
There are eight principles of disaster recovery, in Appendix A of the EMA Recovery Manual 10, located on your Course Resources CDROM. It is worth reading through these, although they have since been refined and updated to the six principles we will focus on below. The principles of recovery which we will examine are located on the South Australian Government – Department for Families and Communities (2009) website: www.dfc.sa.gov.au/pub/default.aspx?tabid=196, as accessed in September 2010.
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The recovery of a community after an emergency or disaster may be described as an empowering and supportive process which allows individuals, families, and communities to attain an appropriate level of functioning through the provision of information, services and resources. I have said "attain an appropriate level of functioning". Why do you think that I have not said their former or better level of functioning? |
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