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From Disaster Recovery to Resilience in Puerto Rico

See the list of improvements in planning and in facilities.

See the list of activities that are putting Puerto Rico on a path to better disaster resilience, Puerto Rico’s Recovery Brings Opportunity to Improve. It includes enhanced planning and building more resilient infrastructure. 

The challenge will be to sustain those efforts over time and not lose interest in the rebuilding process only because things are functional for the time being. Money and interest always wane as time passes. 

Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.