In this volume, editors Naim Kapucu, Christopher V. Hawkins, and Fernando I. Rivera gather an impressive array of scholars to shed new light on how communities can increase their resiliency through policy interventions and governance mechanisms in the United States and worldwide.

Foreword Kathleen Tierney and Siva Sureshwaran 1. Introduction: Disaster Resiliency: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Naim Kapucu, Christopher V. Hawkins, and Fernando I. Rivera Part I: Introduction to Conceptual Insights and Applications of Resilience, Christine A. Bevc 2. All Hazards, Whole Community: Creating Resiliency, Frances L. Edwards 3. Sociological Insights on the Role of Social Capital in Disaster Resilience, Fernando I. Rivera & Marc R. Settembrino 4. Understanding Hurricane Vulnerability: Lessons from Mobile Home Communities, Margarethe Kusenbach & Gabriela Christmann 5. Building Collaborative Capacity for Disaster Resiliency, Beth Gazley 6. Resilient Rural Communities: Housing Recovery Patterns Following Hurricane Katrina, Nazife Emel Ganapati, Shaoming Cheng, & Sukumar Ganapati Part II: Taking Action in Uncertain Environments: Connecting Resilience to Hazards, Ann-Margaret Esnard 7. Public Risks and Disaster Resilience: Rethinking Public and Private Sector Roles, Peter J. May 8. Networks, Collaborative Planning, and Perceived Quality of Comprehensive Plans, Christopher Hawkins 9. Examining Environmental Factors Contributing to Community Resilience along the Gulf of Mexico Coast, Samuel D. Brody & Joshua R. Gunn 10. Resilience Planning in the Face of Uncertainty: Adapting to Climate Change Effects on Coastal Hazards, Robert E. Deyle & William H. Butler 11. Incorporating Resilience of Rural Communities for Pro-active Risk Reduction in Shikoku, Japan, Rajib Shaw Part III: Improving Community Resilience through Networks, Maureen (Mary) Brown 12. The Role of Responder Networks in Promoting Community Resilience: Toward a Measurement Framework of Network Capacity, Branda Nowell & Toddi Steelman 13. Coping with Catastrophe: "Black Swan" in Northeastern Japan, March 11, 2011, Louise Comfort & Aya Okada 14. Enhancing Community Resilience: A Matter of Multi-Level Framework, Mixed Methods, and Multi-Sectoral Tools, Louise Lemyre & Tracey O'Sullivan 15. Management Capacity and Rural Community Resilience, William L. Waugh, Jr. 16. Inter-Organizational Coordination: Analysis of 2011 Van Earthquake, Suleyman Celik & Sitki Corbacioglu 17. Community Capacity and Interorganizational Networks for Disaster Resilience: Comparison of Rural and Urban Counties, Fatih Demiroz, Naim Kapucu, & Rebecca Dodson 18. Emerging Research in Disaster Resiliency: Implications for Policy and Practice, Naim Kapucu, Christopher Hawkins, & Fernando Rivera