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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.7249/RR2604
来源IDRR-2604-DHS
Municipalities on the Front Lines of Puerto Rico's Recovery: Assessing Damage, Needs, and Opportunities for Recovery After Hurricane Maria
Blas Nunez-Neto; Andrew Lauland; Jair Aguirre; Gabriela Castro; Italo A. Gutierrez; Marielena Lara; Etienne Rosas; Beverly A. Weidmer
发表日期2020-09-30
出版年2020
语种英语
结论

The hardest-hit municipalities continue to lag behind the others

  • A year after the hurricanes, the municipalities that were hit the hardest by the hurricanes continued to lag behind their peers across a wide range of indicators, even accounting for their status before the hurricanes.

Municipal finances complicate recovery

  • Municipal revenue and budgets have been declining since 2009, leaving local governments in Puerto Rico without the necessary fiscal cushion to finance up-front costs related to response and reconstruction. The municipal budget crunch has affected Puerto Rico's ability to recover from the hurricanes.

Other long-standing issues exacerbated damage and hinder recovery

  • Municipalities' ability to respond and recover were adversely affected by a range of governance and capacity issues that have existed for many years in Puerto Rico — including a lack of transparency, capacity issues related to municipal staffing and lack of on-staff expertise in key areas, and the absence of regional entities capable of coordinating key activities across municipalities.
摘要

To fulfill Congress's requirement for an economic and disaster-recovery plan for Puerto Rico following Hurricanes Irma and Maria, a team from the Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center conducted an analysis for the government of Puerto Rico and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The team assessed the hurricanes' effect on Puerto Rico's municipalities and the municipalities' ability to govern, deliver services, and recover from the damage they incurred.

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To address information gaps in Puerto Rico, the team surveyed officials from all 78 municipal governments, conducted 12 regional roundtables with municipal officials, collected and analyzed available municipal-level data, and consulted with subject-matter experts. The team's analysis shows that municipal governments faced the hurricanes while dealing with severe fiscal constraints caused by declining income — something that complicated response and recovery efforts.

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FEMA data revealed that the most–heavily affected municipalities were clustered in the southeast coast of the main island, where Maria made landfall, and the central mountainous region, where the rugged terrain exacerbated the hurricane's effects. The team created a framework to evaluate the rate at which different municipalities are recovering, which revealed that the most–heavily damaged municipalities are generally also the ones recovering most slowly.

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Finally, working with the government of Puerto Rico and FEMA, the team developed a set of courses of action (COAs) for recovery aimed at improving municipalities' capacity to govern and deliver key services. These COAs focus on improving municipal fiscal conditions, implementing regional approaches to service delivery and planning, rebuilding urban centers, increasing transparency, and enhancing municipal capacity.

目录
  • Chapter One

    Introduction and Background

  • Chapter Two

    Sources and Methods

  • Chapter Three

    Municipal Voices on the Hurricanes' Impacts

  • Chapter Four

    Governance in Puerto Rico

  • Chapter Five

    Municipal Finances

  • Chapter Six

    Municipal Services

  • Chapter Seven

    Assessing Municipal Recovery

  • Chapter Eight

    Recovery Courses of Action

  • Chapter Nine

    Conclusion

  • Appendix A

    Recovery Courses of Action

  • Appendix B

    Municipal Fiscal Challenges and Initiatives

  • Appendix C

    Municipal Recovery Indicator Data

  • Appendix D

    Services, by Category

主题Continuity of Government ; Disaster Recovery Operations ; Hurricanes ; Public Sector Governance ; Puerto Rico
URLhttps://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2604.html
来源智库RAND Corporation (United States)
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Blas Nunez-Neto,Andrew Lauland,Jair Aguirre,et al. Municipalities on the Front Lines of Puerto Rico's Recovery: Assessing Damage, Needs, and Opportunities for Recovery After Hurricane Maria. 2020.
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