Extension and Community Resilience: Improving Community Disaster Preparedness Using Online Resources

As Extension agents work to improve the quality of life in their communities, they must increase the capacity to respond to disasters, especially in high risk areas (which includes most of coastal Florida). Community Resiliency is a community’s ability to quickly recover from adversity and it can b...

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Main Authors: Emily Ott, Paul Monaghan, Timothy Fogarty
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Published: The University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries 2014-10-01
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Online Access:https://journals.flvc.org/edis/article/view/131956
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