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The need for community resilience continues to gain prominence, and is reflected in a broad array of supporting efforts including measurement methodologies, system standards, governance and policy, and significant private efforts. However, communities continue to experience gaps and struggle to foster a strategic path for the long-term sustainable community resilience. Creating resilience at the community...
The last decade has shown a compelling need for a model to measure effectively how communities fare in overcoming unexpected hazards. Many entities, including the UN, have made relevant contributions in this area. However, a majority of these organizations have proposed and implemented mechanisms that only assess qualitative aspects (such as the presence and completeness of emergency plans) of the...
System standards have been implemented in many contexts over the last few decades. Using closely aligned standards such as the emerging ISO 37120 typology for sustainable and resilient communities, and by drawing from various recognized capability models and indices, this paper develops a structure for operationalization of a community resilience management system, and then maps the system against...
A widespread emergency event in the United States triggers the activation of a regional emergency operations center that manages a coordinated response to the disaster. Historically, the time-critical decisions made by emergency managers in the face of incomplete information and inadequate historical emergency event data have been guided primarily by their experience. The learning curve for emergency...
Resilience has been defined at the local, state, and national levels, and subsequent attempts to refine the definition have added clarity. Quantitative measurements, however, are crucial to a shared understanding of resilience. This paper reviews the evolution of resiliency indicators and metrics and suggests extensions to current indicators to measure functional resilience at a jurisdictional or...
In this work, we frame a methodology for performing risk analysis for mid-size cities and their metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) that addresses infrastructure vulnerabilities impacting far beyond the MSA boundaries. We address the challenges and pitfalls in assessing critical infrastructure in these MSAs, discuss inter- and intra-sector dependencies, and present a method to analyze criticality...
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