Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters
Mission
The Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters is dedicated to raising awareness and possessing the expertise necessary for long-term sustainable reconstruction.
CRSCAD truly encompasses the multidisciplinary approach to sustainability and disaster relief.
Examples of disasters are framed by: bad governance and poverty, environmental pollution, HIV/AIDS, wars and conflicts, severe weather-related events, earthquakes, large-scale attacks on civilian populations, technological catastrophes,and influenza pandemics.
We accomplish our mission, in part, by:
-Engaging in multidisciplinary, transdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary research activities
-Assisting local, national and international agencies as well as the victims of disasters to develop practical, sustainable and long-term solutions to the social, economic and environmental consequences of disasters
-Providing expert advice and training to communities which have been devastated by disasters
-Training post-disaster managers worldwide for the challenges of the 21st century through an 18-credit graduate certificate program and three, non-credit, professional development certificates, offered in conjunction with UMass Boston's College of Advancing and Professional Studies (CAPS)
-Vulnerable communities
-Community resiliency
-Disaster preparedness
-Disaster mitigation
-Disaster recovery
-Post-disaster reconstruction
http://www.umb.edu/crscad
http://www.umb.edu/academics/caps/certificates/global-post-disaster
http://www.umb.edu/academics/caps/corporate/disaster-reconstruction
http://www.umb.edu/academics/caps/corporate/emergency_response
http://www.umb.edu/academics/caps/corporate/emergency_planning
Capacity development, community-based DRR, economics of DRR, governance and urban risk & planning
GIS & mapping, information management and
risk identification & assessment
Education, media and recovery
Environment, gender, governance, health & health facilities,
social impacts & resilience, and vulnerable populations
Capacity development, critical infrastructure, disaster risk management, governance and recovery
-Organization of major, and highly successful, international conferences.
-Establishment and maintenance of collaborative relationships with academic institutions, community-based organizations, NGOs, Government and multilateral agencies, etc.
-Publication of books that address a variety of issues that focus on rebuilding sustainable communities
Voluntary Commitments
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.