Private-Public Sector Collaboration to Enhance Community Disaster Resilience A Workshop Report (2010) / Chapter Skim
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RESEARCH THEMES AND TOOLS Best Practices Several workshop participants stated that no single model or methodology will work for all communities attempting to develop sustainable collaborations for resilience building. Each community must take an approach that is most meaningful and relevant to meets its needs, history, traditions, and composition.
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Frank Reddish of the Miami-Dade County Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security described experiences of those in South Florida following Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Entire communities were destroyed but came back together.
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Metrics for Measuring Partnerships Randolph Rowel of Morgan State University suggested that science for evaluating partnerships exists and is being applied, for example in the public health community. The Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration Center for Substance Abuse and Prevention5 Community Partnership and Coalition programs, for example, have conducted rigorous cross-site evaluation of partnerships they fund using outcome data from 24 randomly selected partnerships and have matched comparison communities identified on the basis of age, gender, ethnicity, size and density of population, income levels, and geographic proximity of the jurisdiction.
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Understanding how the web of formal and informal relationships that comprise a community's civic infrastructure supports all aspects of a community, particularly when under stress, is an essential element for building community resilience, according to multiple participants. Research findings could help city managers and collaboration partners determine how to work more efficiently and measure progress toward common goals.
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Incentivizing Business Participation Incentivizing business participation in collaborative efforts involves being able to communicate with those in the business sector using meaningful language and methodologies. The concept of developing a business prospectus for building community disaster resilience through private-public sector partnership was discussed in Chapter 2 of this report.
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Identifying Existing Networks Identifying and utilizing existing social networks in a community was described by multiple workshop participants as essential for communicating and engaging all members of the community. Research on how to use social networking tools to identify and reach out to all community stakeholders in order to strengthen network connections was identified as an important area of study.
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Some workshop participants described the usefulness of understanding what happens following a disaster in secondary cities -- those indirectly impacted by a disaster. Understanding, for example, how Hurricane Katrina affected collaborative efforts and general resilience of cities such as Lafayette, Louisiana, Houston, Texas, or Memphis, Tennessee over time could be important.
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Understanding technologies and communication techniques such as social networking tools could enhance communication, according to some workshop participants. Building Capacity Workshop participants identified an array of research areas that could fill gaps in knowledge regarding the building of community and individual capacities necessary for resilient communities.
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Participants of a recent workshop on the use of social network analysis for building community disaster resilience suggested building regional collaboratives among local universities, agencies, and businesses (NRC, 2009)
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A NATIONAL AGENDA TO SUPPORT COLLABORATION Many workshop participants identified the need to create a culture throughout the nation that promotes collaborative community resilience-building efforts. To build community resilience, it is essential to move from a system focused on response to disasters, toward a framework that is informed and guided by the principles of resilience building.
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