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This paper is organized as follows. First, we discuss how businesses function as both economic and social units of a community. Then, we review the literature on social, financial, and institutional factors that affect household and business recovery decisions. Next, we describe our research design, followed by a discussion of our findings. We end the paper with conclusions and discussions related to recovery and resilience planning. Roles of Community Businesses Community Businesses as Economic Units Businesses have been traditionally viewed as economic units because they resemble establishments of production. They utilize resources such as capital, labor, land, and entrepreneurship to produce goods and services that meet certain customer demand (Pride, Hughes, and Kapoor 2014) and gain profit (Kahneman, Knetsch, and Thaler 1986). In this traditional view, households and businesses are interrelated 804328J PEXXX10.

2012’s Superstorm Sandy had a devastating impact on the New York City metropolitan region, including the suburban Long Island coast and the New Jersey shore. Given the size, density, complexity, and diversity of the region, many approaches have been used to address poststorm recovery. Planning has been central to these efforts. Using in-depth interviews with recovery stakeholders, this analysis of the planning responses to Sandy illustrates what an emergent model of resilient recovery planning looks like and highlights the kinds of resources and approaches that help facilitate this approach. We argue that preexisting planning capacity, strong political leadership, and nongovernmental funding support were critically important aspects of resilience-focused Sandy recovery planning processes.

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