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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2015. Developing a Framework for Measuring Community Resilience: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/20672.
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Appendix B

Workshop Agenda

Measures of Community Resilience: From Lessons Learned to Lessons Applied:
A National Academies Workshop

September 5, 2014
The National Academies of Sciences
2100 C Street NW, Washington, D.C.

 
9:00 am Welcome and Introductions
M. Granger Morgan, University and Lord Chair Professor of Engineering; Professor, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University Lauren Alexander Augustine, Director, Program on Risk, Resilience, and Extreme Events, The National Academies
 
9:10 am Keynote: Measuring Community Resilience – the Landscape of Resilience Indicators
Susan L. Cutter, Carolina Distinguished Professor and Director of the Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute, Department of Geography, University of South Carolina
 
9:45 am Panel 1: Developing Resilience Indicators and Measures: Lessons Learned
Moderator: Gerald Galloway, Research Professor, Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland
 
  Roy Wright, Deputy Association Administrator for Mitigation, Federal Emergency Management Agency
Thomas de Lannoy, European Commission, Civil Protection Unit Michael Szönyi, Zurich Insurance Group Chuck Wemple, Chief Operations Officer, Houston-Galveston Area Council
 
10:45 am Break
 
11:10 – 12:00 pm Panel 2: Developing and Implementing Resilience Indicators and Measures at the Community Level: Lessons Applied
Moderator: Arrietta Chakos, Policy Advisor, Urban Resilience Strategies
 
  Sandi Fowler, Assistant City Manager – Development Services, City of Cedar Rapids Clay Stamp, County Manager, Talbot County (Maryland) Government
Miriam Chion, Planning and Research Director, Association of Bay Area Governments
Laura Cabiness, Director, Department of Public Service, City of Charleston, S.C.
 
12:15 pm Adjourn
Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2015. Developing a Framework for Measuring Community Resilience: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/20672.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2015. Developing a Framework for Measuring Community Resilience: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/20672.
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The 2012 National Research Council report Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative highlighted the challenges of increasing national resilience in the United States. One finding of the report was that "without numerical means of assessing resilience, it would be impossible to identify the priority needs for improvement, to monitor changes, to show that resilience had improved, or to compare the benefits of increasing resilience with the associated costs." Although measuring resilience is a challenge, metrics and indicators to evaluate progress, and the data necessary to establish the metric, are critical for helping communities to clarify and formalize what the concept of resilience means for them, and to support efforts to develop and prioritize resilience investments. One of the recommendations from the 2012 report stated that government entities at federal, state, and local levels and professional organizations should partner to help develop a framework for communities to adapt to their circumstances and begin to track their progress toward increasing resilience.

To build upon this recommendation and begin to help communities formulate such a framework, the Resilient America Roundtable of the National Academies convened the workshop Measures of Community Resilience: From Lessons Learned to Lessons Applied on September 5, 2014 in Washington, D.C. The workshop's overarching objective was to begin to develop a framework of measures and indicators that could support community efforts to increase their resilience. The framework will be further developed through feedback and testing in pilot and other partner communities that are working with the Resilient America Roundtable. This report is a summary of the one-day workshop, which consisted of a keynote address and two panel sessions in the morning and afternoon breakout sessions that began the discussion on how to develop a framework of resilience measures.

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