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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...
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...
Effective emergency management depends upon accurate information, especially in the case of disaster scale preparation, recovery, and response. As recent experience demonstrates, leveraging situational information is critical to community recovery. Critical incident management involves the fusion of variant informational sources leveraged through collection technologies onto a common organizational...
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