Austrian insights on the limits of central planning, the pervasiveness of knowledge problems, and the importance of the entrepreneur in coordinating social change have yielded substantive contributions to the literature on how individuals and communities respond to both natural and unnatural, or...

1. Introduction -- 2. The What, How, and Why of Bottom-up Rebuilding and Recovery after Natural Disasters -- 3. Nonviolent Action -- 4. The Private Sector's Contribution to Natural Disaster Response -- 5. Formation of Public-Private Partnerships by Local Emergency Managers -- 6. Children Take...

Crises occur in all societies across world, and can be natural (such as hurricanes, flooding, and earthquakes), man-made (such as wars and economic downturns), or, often, a combination of both (such as famines, the flooding of New Orleans in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina and subsequent levy...

Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The entrepreneur as a driver of social change -- How entrepreneurs promote post-disaster community rebound -- How entrepreneurship promotes community recovery : the cases of hurricanes katrina and sandy -- Goods and services providers -- Regrowing...

Introduction : uncertainty and discovery in a post-disaster context / Emily Camlee-Wright, Virgil Henry Storr ; Uncertainty in the post-Katrina Big Easy / Adam Martin -- The use of knowledge in natural disaster relief management / Russel S. Sobel, Peter T. Leeson -- Making hurricane response...