Building and Measuring Community Resilience Actions for Communities and the Gulf Research Program (2019) / Chapter Skim
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The efforts are diverse and range from large, international programs (e.g., 100 Resilient Cities -- Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction Making Cities Resilient Cam paign, Z Zurich Foundation) to national programs (e.g., the National Academies' Resilient America Program, RISE Resilience Innovations, ICLEI, the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Community Resilience Program)
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over a 30-year time period. The National Academy of Sciences created the Gulf Research Program (GRP)
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. The report also highlights several actions needed to build and measure community resilience: • Utilize community participation and engagement at the outset of com munity resilience building and measurement efforts to engender buy-in around resilience priorities, goals, and leadership; • Design and measure resilience around multiple dimensions of a commu nity, for example, the natural, built, financial, human, social, and political "capitals" of resilience; • Use measures to track progress and in decision making and ensure that the data collected, integrated, or synthesized are relatable and usable for decision making; and • Incentivize measuring resilience by expressing multiple benefits gained from single investments.
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The community site visits and meetings reflected knowledge gaps, research directions, and opportunities that could pave the way for new approaches to realize more resilient communities. The eight communities with which the committee conferred were New O rleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Gulfport and Waveland, Mississippi; New York, New York; Minot, North Dakota; and Rapid City and Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, representing a diversity of community perspectives in terms of hazards and risk profiles, demographic and socioeconomic profiles, geographic location, and population size.
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creating incentives for measuring resilience through actions that provide multiple benefits. From these actions, the committee offers communities four recommendations for tracking and measuring community resilience efforts.
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. FOR THE GULF RESEARCH PROGRAM: WAYS FORWARD FOR BUILDING AND MEASURING COMMUNITY RESILIENCE IN THE GULF REGION The committee's task was to provide findings and recommendations on common approaches and "key issues for future programs to consider in measuring the
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Recommendation 5: The Gulf Research Program should develop a major, coordinated initiative around building or enhancing community resilience in communities across the Gulf region. The basic structure of a GRP community resilience initiative should include multiple communities, capture and document community resilience strategies and measurements, foster interactions across and among GRP communities through a resilience learning collaborative, and implement longitudinal research that includes systematic analysis and integration of data from various sources.
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The learning collaborative concept deals with community resilience at the regional scale, engendering community-to-community learning across the Gulf region. Recommendation 7: The Gulf Research Program should create, finance, and maintain a resilience learning collaborative for diverse stakeholders to exchange information about lessons learned, approaches, challenges, and successes in their respective and collective work to advance community resilience in the Gulf region.
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Its mix of issues related to economy, ecology, and a diverse and vibrant culture combined with its exposure to the effects of social inequity and vulnerability, low health outcomes of its residents, an extractive economy, and natural hazards underscores the urgency of action. The GRP has a rare opportunity to alter the resilience trajectory of Gulf region communities through a community resilience framework, community engagement, a learning collaborative, and longitudinal, transdisciplinary studies that inform decision making.
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