Dam and Levee Safety and Community Resilience A Vision for Future Practice (2012) / Chapter Skim
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4 Vision and Conceptual Framework for Resilience-Focused Engagement
4 Vision and Conceptual Framework for Resilience-Focused Engagement
Pages 77-96
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Such a vision is achievable when all dam and levee professionals, other community members, and stakeholders more broadly recognize the mutual benefits and increased social capital to be gained through participation in processes that enhance community resilience. The vision is achievable only through an expansion of traditional dam and levee safety practice coupled with changes on the part of policy makers and the broader public to recognize the benefits of dam and levee infrastructure.
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Until they recognize the benefits of community engagement, improvements in resilience to dam and levee failure will be minimal. It is essential that dam and levee professionals engage with the broader community to identify shared goals and resources, and to collaboratively develop strategies and processes to support resilience.
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. a dam and levee infrastructure, more social and legal pressures will be placed on dam and levee owners to participate in and inform efforts to enhance community resilience.
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And it does not build the social capital discussed in Chapter 2 that can result in desired community or economic outcomes. Even in light of those limitations, it is easy to anticipate the dam safety community's reluctance to adopt practices that move beyond regulatory compliance in the interest of increasing community resilience.
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Initial incentives for private and public dam and levee owners to collaborate in resilience-enhancing processes may include increased profitability, decreased liability, increased trust in and of the broader community, goodwill, and recognition as good community citizens. For dam and levee safety regulators, whose principal responsibility is public safety, engaging in community resilience-building processes is an opportunity to support the public-safety mandate.
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Ultimately, the federal government could channel relevant information, examples, and data from the state and local levels that represent best practices and results and could serve as examples and incentives. Engagement and Selection of Processes Effectively engaging a community on issues related to community resilience involves more than making presentations to city councils, town boards, or similar community bodies.
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Tools will need to be identified, perhaps with the help of the federal government, to identify stakeholders, choose appropriate organizational vehicles for community engagement, and assist collaborative identification of desired community outcomes and the processes needed to achieve them (see Chapter 5 for more discussion)
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Regulators require EAPs and often oversee tabletop and field exercises. Where efforts to enhance community resilience are under way, dam safety regulators will have expanded responsibilities and unique roles in newly established collaborative networks.
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adverse events. As the nation increases its understanding and appreciation of what it takes to enhance community resilience, a paradigm shift is required specifically in the dam and levee safety community, and more generally in other elements of the broader community.
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A conceptual framework for incorporating concepts of collaborative community resilience into dam and levee safety programs is presented later in this chapter. The framework recognizes that in any given community there are numerous means of enhancing resilience that will benefit both dam and levee owners and the broader community.
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physical environments; public policies) consideration of full •Based on existing disaster cycle networks when possible •Improved risk assessment Implementation Principles and Strategies •Identify and create incentives •Assume disaster resilience is part of broader •Strategically direct interventions at multiple community resilience levels •Institutionalize collaboration for sustainability •Target capacity building, changes in community policy, practice, and environment 87 FIGURE 4.1 Conceptual model for private–public collaboration for building community resilience.
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. Just as community resilience depends on full representation, collaboration will be most successful if collaborators include those who have experience in the issues of concern but also diverse perspectives, experience, knowledge, and constituencies (Butterfoss, 2007)
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Community-change outcomes are changes in the community that increase the community's ability to prepare for, respond to, recover from, and adapt as a result of dam or levee failure. They include "changes in community policies, practice, and environment that result from enhanced community capacity and participation" (NRC, 2011a; p.
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It has many of the same components as the more general framework for resilience-focused collaboration shown in Figure 4.1 but is intended to communicate those components in a way specifically applicable to dam and levee safety programs. Central to the framework are collaborative processes for resource and floodplain management -- the very reason for dam and levee infrastructure -- that focus on aspects of dam and levee safety and community resilience.
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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 91 FIGURE 4.2 Conceptual framework for resilience-focused collaboration related to dam and levee safety.
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Community Factors There are numerous factors external to any collaborative effort that influence decision making and community resilience, including the political, economic, cultural, and physical environments. Policies that limit the ability to obtain inundation maps, for example, are external factors that affect communication, and therefore decision making.
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Making communities aware of who is at risk of inundation and other consequences of dam and levee failure informs risk reduction decisions and activities. Risk Assessment Through collaborative engagement, dam and levee owners and the broader community can assess hazards and risks associated with dam and levee infrastructure over the life cycles of dam and levee infrastructure and developed land.
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Risk-informed land-use planning can also be an aspect of hazard mitigation and certainly informs resource and floodplain management. Collaboration between dam and levee professionals and the broader community will allow more successful communication of information vital for land-use planning, and will provide an opportunity to influence policies and practices that can reduce exposure to flood disasters resulting from dam and levee failures.
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Dam and levee professionals who have that understanding may be able to make informed operational choices that reduce risk for the community while minimizing operational costs. Collaborative decision making can reduce community economic risk, reduce owner liability, and possibly reduce insurance costs.
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