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Building back locally : supporting Puerto Rico's municipalities in post-hurricane reconstruction / Shelly Culbertson, John Bordeaux, Italo A. Gutierrez, Andrew Lauland, Kristin J. Leuschner, Blas Nunez-Neto, Lisa Saum-Manning.
Van Pelt Library HV636 2017.P9 C85 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Culbertson, Shelly.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Municipal government--Puerto Rico.
- Municipal government.
- Community development--Puerto Rico.
- Community development.
- Disaster relief--Puerto Rico.
- Disaster relief.
- Hurricane Irma, 2017.
- Hurricane Maria, 2017.
- Hurricane damage--Puerto Rico.
- Hurricane damage.
- Puerto Rico.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 96 pages : maps ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2020.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction
- Motivation for This Study
- Focus of This Study
- Challenges Facing Puerto Rico's Municipalities
- The Importance of Local Government Capacity in Postdisaster Reconstruction
- Methods
- Limitations of This Study
- Organization of This Document
- ch. 2 Framework for Assessing Municipal Responsibilities
- The Reconstruction Life Cycle
- Municipal Reconstruction Capacity Assessment Framework for Puerto Rico
- Municipal Relative Capacity Indexes
- Chapter Conclusion
- ch. 3 Relative Municipal Capacities for Reconstruction in Puerto Rico
- Municipalities' Relative Capacities Overall
- Relationship of Capacity to Municipality Size
- Relationship of Capacity to Severity of Hurricane Damage
- ch. 4 General Municipal Reconstruction Challenges
- Strategy
- Management
- Operations
- Finance and Administration
- ch. 5 Lessons Learned from Other U.S. State and Local Governments in Postdisaster Reconstruction
- ch. 6 Recommendations for Supporting Municipal Capacity for Reconstruction in Puerto Rico
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- "HSOAC, Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 90-96).
- Introduction.
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 9781977403155
- 1977403158
- OCLC:
- 1202435419
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