Dam and Levee Safety and Community Resilience A Vision for Future Practice (2012) / Chapter Skim
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6 Conclusions
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Pages 121-132
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As a diverse group of engineers, social scientists, community planners, and other experts, the committee had to learn to communicate to identify issues and a vision for incorporating concepts of community resilience into dam and levee safety programs. The committee quickly learned that individual members used different vocabularies to express themselves, complicating the sharing of ideas.
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The committee noted that simply discussing the elements of the maturity matrix allows those with different backgrounds (e.g., representing different stakeholder groups) to understand the many complex elements of dam and levee safety programs and community requirements for enhancing resilience.
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Dam and levee safety professionals can provide critical expertise, support lifecycle hazard and risk assessments, and take part in informed decision-making processes as they and the broader community work to enhance resilience. At the same time, dam and levee professionals and the organizations they represent can ultimately derive benefits from participation in efforts to enhance community resilience, including a potential reduction in liability through decreased flood risk.
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Levee safety professionals have been similarly concerned with preventing uncontrolled flow, although levee safety programs generally are far less mature than dam safety programs. Focus on EAPs is essential for both dams and levees, but EAP preparation is not an established practice for levee safety, and EAPs alone are not sufficient to enhance community resilience.
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Collaborative engagement builds the trust among dam and levee professionals and other community members that is a vital element of community resilience. With trust comes more effective communication, improvements in social capital, deeper appreciation of dam and levee infrastructure, and recognition of dam and levee professionals as good community citizens.
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Improving dam and levee safety programs to emphasize processes that enhance community resilience requires a culture shift among dam and levee professionals. This new emphasis requires embracing the responsibilities -- and 126
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Regulatory compliance is a necessary first step, but it alone will not build community resilience. The vision for future dam and levee safety programs is one in which dam and levee safety professionals and the larger community are active participants in risk-informed processes that support improved community resilience.
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These efforts may focus on all-hazards approaches to enhance community resilience; risks associated with dam and levee failure may be among the hazards (see, e.g., the FEMA Risk MAP program) .5 Tools, guidance, and best practices for enhancing resilience may have already been described in programs of those or other agencies.
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Continu ous improvements in community resilience are more likely if such processes as community and stakeholder engagement assessment are institutionalized by dam and levee safety programs and the broader community. Enhancing resilience is a multistage process that encompasses efforts to identify and reduce risks, prepare for hazardous events, respond to and recover from events, and allow community adaptation in response to lessons learned from the entire cycle of activities.
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The Maturity Matrix for Assessing Community Engagement (see Chapter 5 for detailed description) can help dam and levee professionals and the broader community to gauge the level of practice with respect to community resilience and to understand how individual processes fit into the larger community resilience picture.
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The committee offers a fundamental framework for a holistic and systematic approach to safety analysis that incorporates elements of community resilience and risk management. If developed and tailored to applications in individual community or safety programs, the framework would likely improve communication, allow communities to establish goals and priorities, and identify the means to reach goals to improve resilience.
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The committee has focused largely on the concept of community and stakeholder engagement and the assessment of progress of engagement in advancing community resilience goals. The Maturity Matrix for Assessing Community Engagement can be central to both.
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