Business recovery from disasters: Lessons from natural hazards and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chang, S.E., Brown, B., Noy, I., Handmer, J., Helgeson, J., Kajitani, Y., Keating, A. & Roa-Henriquez, A. (2022). Business recovery from disasters: Lessons from natural hazards and the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103191
Abstract
With the benefit of insights from long-standing research on past large-scale disruptive events, such as floods, storms, and earthquakes, this paper compares economic recovery in the COVID-19 pandemic with other types of disasters. The paper then identifies five key lessons on business recovery from disasters and provides a conceptual framework to support policy-makers anticipating business recovery needs in economically disruptive events, including disasters.