Book/Printed Material Building back locally : supporting Puerto Rico's municipalities in post-hurricane reconstruction

Title

• Building back locally : supporting Puerto Rico's municipalities in post-hurricane reconstruction

Summary

• Successful reconstruction in Puerto Rico depends crucially on the administrative, management, and fiscal capacity of Puerto Rico's 78 municipal governments. Municipalities will be responsible for an estimated $4 billion in reconstruction funds and will need to manage complex reconstruction projects while coordinating with the government of Puerto Rico and federal government. After a decade-long economic crisis, municipalities are dealing with long-standing challenges, including a shrinking population and workforce and economic declines, simultaneously with the unprecedented scale of reconstruction. Many municipal governments lack sufficient capacities, including staff, skills, systems, and experience in conducting damage assessments, submitting funding applications, writing grants, and procuring and overseeing complex contracts. Municipalities have never before faced a reconstruction challenge of this magnitude and must learn how to navigate many complex Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Puerto Rico Central Office of Recovery, Reconstruction, and Resiliency (COR3) processes. Drawing on best-practice frameworks, available data, interviews with personnel from FEMA and COR3, and case studies of both municipalities and reconstruction projects, the authors analyze municipalities' capacity and needs in four key areas: strategy, management, operations, and finance and administration. They present recommendations to help FEMA and COR3 target scarce resources and technical assistance where they are needed most at the municipal level to support Puerto Rico's overall reconstruction effort-and to help all municipalities build resilience for the next major hurricane or unforeseen natural disaster.

Names

• Culbertson, Shelly, author
• Bordeaux, John, author
• Gutierrez, Italo, author
• Lauland, Andrew, author
• Leuschner, Kristin, author
• Nuñez-Neto, Blas, author
• Saum-Manning, Lisa, author
• Rand Corporation. Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center
• Rand Corporation
• United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency

Created / Published

• [Santa Monica, CA] : RAND Corporation, 2020.

Contents

• Machine generated contents note:

Headings

• -  Municipal government--Puerto Rico
• -  Community development--Puerto Rico
• -  Disaster relief--Puerto Rico
• -  Hurricane Irma, 2017
• -  Hurricane Maria, 2017
• -  Hurricane damage--Puerto Rico
• -  Community development
• -  Disaster relief
• -  Hurricane damage
• -  Municipal government
• -  Puerto Rico
• -  Hurricane Irma--(2017)
• -  Hurricane Maria--(2017)

Notes

• -  "HSOAC, Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center."
• -  Also available on the Internet as a PDF file.
• -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 88-94).
• -  See also RAND/RR-2595-DHS, RAND/RR-2597-DHS, RAND/RR-2598-DHS, RAND/RR-2599-DHS, RAND/RR-2600-DHS, RAND/RR-2602-DHS, RAND/RR-2603-DHS, RAND/RR-2604-DHS, RAND/RR-2605, RAND/RR-2606-DHS, RAND/RR-2607-DHS, RAND/RR-2608-DHS, RAND/RR-2856-DHS, RAND/RR-2858-DHS, RAND/RR-2861-DHS, RAND/RR-3040-DHS, RAND/RR-3042-DHS.
• -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

• 1 online resource (xx, 94 pages) : illustrations.

Call Number/Physical Location

• HV636 2017 .P9

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2024739187

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2024739187

Rights Advisory

• This is non-restricted, fully open content that may be accessed on and off of the Library of Congress campus, with no restrictions, by an unlimited number of users

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

• image
• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2024739187

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