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... This report will be of interest to a broad audience, but much of the discussion is directed to dam and levee professionals in both private and public infrastructure safety programs, and at all levels of government. Dam and levee safety professionals include infrastructure owners, operators, and regulators, the majority of whom are technical experts in such areas as geotechnical, geologic, hydrologic, hydraulic, and civil-structural engineering.
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... The committee will identify tools, products, and guidance that could be developed at the federal level to address the issues above. The human behavioral drivers that may promote or inhibit the expansion of dam and levee safety programs to promote community resilience will be considered.
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... A framework for process selection is provided, but because operations to enhance safety and resilience will be necessarily unique for each community, specific steps for enhancing resilience are not provided. The first three conclusions define community, community resilience, and the responsibility of dam and levee professionals with respect to resilience.
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... The expertise and practice of dam and levee professionals, as the designers and caretakers of dams and levees, are critical for community resilience. However, dam and levee infrastructure also depends on other com 4
From page 5...
... are intended to support decision making and enhanced community resilience, but are not readily available to all community members and stakeholders who make those decisions. The availability of hazard- and risk-related data is essential for informed decision making on the part of dam and levee professionals and the broader community.
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... . Dam and levee safety programs, however, often operate independently of other community functions, and dam and levee professionals often fail to understand the value of community engagement and social capital to their own programs.
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... A CULTURAL SHIFT Conclusion 7. Improving dam and levee safety programs to emphasize processes that enhance community resilience requires a culture shift among dam and levee professionals.
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... Collaborative networks for enhancing community resilience may already exist in some communities for dam and levee professionals to join. Dam and levee professionals do not need to invent or lead collaborative efforts, but do have a responsibility to share their unique knowledge for their own benefit, the benefit of the organizations they represent, and the benefit of the larger community.
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... • Financial response and recovery planning and preparedness (e.g., political, economic, cultural and Resilience-Related Outcomes physical environments; public policies) social capital, informed decisions, trusted • Risk-informed land-use planning (e.g., available risk information, increased • Emergency response and recovery planning and preparedness tion Dam u trib and L dis ev nd ee Community participation, feedback, and evaluation ya i nf ilit orm ilab atio ava n na a ti o vail or m abili in f Community Resilience ty an D a m a n d L e ve e d distrib ution 9 FIGURE S.1 Conceptual framework for resilience-focused collaboration related to dam and levee safety.
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... Attention by the federal government could be focused on the tools, training, and information that would help dam and levee professionals identify and engage community members and stakeholders; the community-specific processes for disseminating risk-related information; and identification of community priorities and resources. Also necessary is attention to improving risk-reduction and mitigation measures, land-use management, financial resilience and preparedness, and on the means to benchmark progress in all aspects of the larger effort to improve resource and floodplain management and community resilience.
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... The greater community also needs to institutionalize engagement with dam and levee safety professionals into community functioning, perhaps as part of an already-existing all-inclusive community resilience strategy. An institutionalized forum for collaboration is needed in which community members, stakeholders, and dam and levee professionals can address community resilience issues, including resource and floodplain management; operational and risk communication; safety and resilience education and awareness; community member and stakeholder analyses; life-cycle hazard and risk assessment and mitigation; risk-informed land-use planning; funding for infrastructure repair and maintenance; financial preparedness, recovery, and response; and emergency response and recovery planning and preparedness.
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... through best industry practice to community including development of member and full stakeholder engagement and collaboration (Level V) community preparedness measures, warning and evacuation procedures, and recovery plans Floodplain management No floodplain Floodplain Floodplain management management plans management plans plans accommodate in place shadow floodplain associated with catastrophic dam or levee failure Specific tools such as those Each tool is defined at different levels showing progression related to land-use planning from minimum activity (Level I)
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... Summary Level IV Level V Examples of Possible Outcomes Application of quantitative risk Application of quantitative risk Community is fully apprised of assessment by using criteria assessment by using criteria that current level of risk developed by owner or regulator reflect the community's societal with input from community values members and stakeholders EAPs developed with input Community collaboration with Community collaboration from community members and owners or operators to develop results in EAPs that minimize stakeholders and emergency integrated EAPs that reflect consequences of defined management agency and community values emergencies by incorporating shared with selected community community values and the representatives potential for community resilience Floodplain management plans Floodplain management plans Full participation by both integrated into community fully integrated into dam and community and dam and comprehensive or general plans levee owners' planning processes levee owners in floodplain management facilitates adoption of complementary resilience enhancing measures 13
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... The federal government can be instrumental in developing further the basic framework for the Maturity Matrix for Assessing Community Engagement and in developing guidance for its use. To populate a community-specific matrix, safety programs and communities will need 14
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... Summary assistance determining characteristics of resilience in their communities, determining strategies for identifying and engaging community members and stakeholders, and determining the vulnerabilities and risks associated with all hazards and alternatives for reducing or mitigating them. Federal agencies that have responsibility for dams and levees can collaborate to examine safety programs, identify the means to improve their own knowledge of risk communication, advise communities how risk can be communicated in clear, understandable, and actionable terms, and to explore the role of community factors including legislation and land-use planning, in the severity of hazards and consequences to a community.


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