Building and Measuring Community Resilience Actions for Communities and the Gulf Research Program (2019) / Chapter Skim
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3 Ground Truthing How Communities Measure Resilience
3 Ground Truthing How Communities Measure Resilience
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Finding 3.3 Community organizations often have their own data sources, systems, tools, and platforms that are not compatible with those of other organizations, making it difficult to integrate measurement activities across sectors. Finding 3.4 Community engagement and buy-in are critical to community resilience.
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. COMMUNITIES VISITED The committee visited seven communities -- New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Gulfport and Waveland, Mississippi; New York, New York; and Rapid City and Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota -- and conducted a videoconference with local government officials in Minot, North Dakota (see Figure 3-1; Appendix D provides a brief description of each community)
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Discussions with local stakeholders provided insights into the challenges of building and measuring community resilience locally, as well as the utility and applicability of resilience metrics and measurement tools such as those discussed in Chapter 2. The committee used these site visits to examine how resilience measurement work is advancing in communities and where knowledge gaps, research directions, and/or opportunities for new approaches exist to realize more healthy and resilient communities within the Gulf region and beyond.
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The committee also visited New York City, a city with a high concentration of resilience funders and academic leaders, and met with about 40 local stakeholders, including organizations that fund and lead large-scale resilience programs (e.g., the Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities initiative, Rebuild by Design) ; staff from seven city agencies; senior leadership from the Port Authority of New York/New Jersey; and representatives from the financial and insurance industries.
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Some did not use the term "resilience" in reference to their preparation and mitigation activities, but resilience thinking and approaches were evident in their efforts to reduce or adapt to known hazards and risks; recognize and address acute and chronic shocks and stressors; increase individual preparedness; and/or strengthen their community through community engagement and partnerships. COMMUNITY DISCUSSIONS ABOUT MEASURING RESILIENCE: FINDINGS AND OBSERVATIONS During the site visits, the communities discussed their resilience goals, challenges, and needs.
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. Similarly, the Black Hills Knowledge Network's South Dakota Dashboard provides trend data in the form of charts, graphs, and maps that track community indicators such as civic engagement, demographics, the economy, health, housing, workforce, and income that communities can use for strategic planning and policy making.2 Information from these types of efforts could inform community resilience decision making and programs.
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Community stakeholders expressed a need for resilience measures that consider acute and chronic shocks and stressors. For example, one public sector official articulated that strategies to strengthen the science of measuring community resilience should cross disciplinary and jurisdictional boundaries to address common hazards as well as acute and chronic stressors associated with disasters and disparities; current measurement tools do not align easily with this.
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Communication outreach programs about resilience can be built into broader community engagement efforts. For example, in preparation of its proposal for HUD's Community Development Block Grant-National isaster Resilience competition, Minot's local government held 60 public meetD ings with diverse community members.
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When these individuals are trusted by the community, local governments can partner with them to help prioritize resilience goals and put resilience efforts into action. Two of the communities visited, New Orleans and New York City, are members of the Rockefeller 100 Resilient Cities initiative and have resilience leaders called chief resilience officers -- people charged with developing a city's resilience strategy.
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Need for Decision Makers to Justify Resilience Investments Decision makers make difficult funding choices among competing priorities. Local governments with limited funding are under pressure to prioritize only a subset of the actions necessary for broad community resilience, for example, short-term, day-to-day community priorities such as inadequate infrastructure or those associated with community stressors such as crime and poverty.
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In other words, community stakeholders viewed community resilience measurement as a continuous process that should be embedded in day-to-day practice rather than a one-time assessment in the aftermath of a disaster. Community stake holders seek tools that assess the impact of resilience work and track resilience investments in order to show that the investments are working.
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to implement resilience measurement and do not devote resources to explicitly measure resilience. In fact, all the resilience measurement efforts discussed in this report were underwritten and/or implemented in communities by outside entities (e.g., 100 Resilient Cities, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Resilient America Program)
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