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1 Introduction
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... governmental community to recognize that experiential information necessary to understand national resilience lies in communities across the United States.1 One finding issued by the committee 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, measures and indicators to evaluate progress, and the data necessary to establish those measures, 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.
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... The workshop aimed to develop or frame measures and indicators, which could be applied across a range of communities, to support community efforts to place a meaningful value on resilience. Measuring real improvements is dependent, in part, on understanding baselines for various indicator categories; using measures can help communities see improvements in their resilience over time, better gauge and measure their investments, understand tradeoffs among community priorities, and assist decision makers in establishing incentives for increasing resilience (National Academy of Sciences, 2012)
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... P of that ad Part daptation may be to move aw from the coast, an opt b way e tion that more coastal com e mmunities are starting to co onsider as they recognize the increased ri of adverse events occur e isk e rring in proxiimity to the co oastline. A to to measure resilience can help comm ool c munities assess their priori ities, goals, a needs, and also and d help estabblish baselines Baselines are needed to better assess progress and to set goals in order to al s.
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... model is semi-quan ng n ntitative and infrastructure-focused, and assesses the ability of a community's infrastructure to recover f c e from earthquuakes.5 The PEOP PLES Resilie ence Framework is a quan ntitative and q qualitative ho olistic framewwork for desi igning and measu uring resilience at the loca level,6 whic uses a GIS al ch -based assesssment that inccorporates diffferent elements of resilience into a sing inventory The Baseli Resilienc Indicators for Commu e gle y. ine ce unities (BRIC)
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... o Can be replicated o Can address multiple hazards o Are representative of a community's geographical extent, physical characteristics, and diversity o Are adaptable and scalable to different community sizes, compositions, and changing circum stances. Four overarching target categories for developing community-based resilience measures are identified in the 2012 Disaster Resilience report: critical infrastructure, social factors, buildings and structures, and vulnerable populations (Figure 1-1)
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... FIGURE 1-2 An exam mple of com mponents, obje ectives, and mmeasures ideentified using the critical infra g structure target categor SOURCE: Dr. Susan Cutter, present t ry.
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... Dr. Cutter responded that one of the objectives of the Resilient America Roundtable is to partner with pilot communities to begin the process of identifying critical elements of different tools and make those tools more accessible, to help communities prioritize resources and better reach their resilience goals.
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... 2012. Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative.


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