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5 For the Gulf Research Program: Ways Forward for Building and Measuring Community Resilience in the Gulf Region
Pages 71-84

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From page 71...
... 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. Recommendation 8.
From page 72...
... It can include explicit resilience measures that track progress toward short-term and long-term milestones to address the urgency to build sustained resilience in the Gulf region. The GRP resilience initiative should include multiple communities across the Gulf region's five states and take a nested approach to (see Figure 5-1)
From page 73...
... The GRP has the budget to undertake a community resilience initiative in the Gulf region. The exact budget for a community resilience initiative in the Gulf would depend on the number of communities involved and the scope of the initiative.
From page 74...
... However, despite initial human health research conducted in the aftermath of the disaster, there has been insufficient focus on human health research in the Gulf. Though this report has focused on building and measuring overall community resilience, the committee urges the GRP to develop an area of study centered on longitudinal human health research in the Gulf region.
From page 75...
... Community engagement and buy-in can help to ensure that the community's resilience approach, investments, and priorities will reflect the wellbeing and interests of the whole community across multiple community capitals, be sustained over time, and achieve additional benefits and outcomes beyond the direct program investments by the GRP. Action: In each of the GRP communities, the GRP should engage diverse stakeholders to build community buy-in around community resilience goals or priorities and recruit local leaders and champions for resilience efforts.
From page 76...
... Investments that Yield Multiple Benefits The Gulf region faces many risks: natural hazards or technological accidents, chronic conditions related to disparities and environmental degradation, and other risks that are the outcomes of slow onset events such as sea level rise, climate change, or shifts in the energy/oil and gas industries. There are tangible benefits to building resilience and financial tools that can support resilience (Finding 4.3)
From page 77...
... In creating the framework for community resilience to build and measure resilience within communities, the GRP should do the following: 1. Build a community resilience initiative through collaboration with mul tiple and varied communities across the Gulf region.
From page 78...
... The GRP could play a convening role across at least two groups of vested stakeholders: the communities involved in the GRP community resilience initiative and other groups that also received funds from settlements from the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill. A learning collaborative 2 Information about the National Climate Assessment Sustained Assessment Program is available at https://www.globalchange.gov/engage/process-products/sustained-assessment#PublicComment.
From page 79...
... Convening Other Gulf Region Stakeholders The Resources and Ecosystems Sustainability, Tourist Opportunities, and Revived Economies of the Gulf Coast States Act (RESTORE Act) 3 of 2012 dedicates 80 percent of all administrative and civil penalties related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to the Gulf Coast Restoration Trust Fund and outlines a structure for the use of funds to restore and protect the natural resources, ecosystems, and economy of the Gulf coast region.
From page 80...
... Action: The GRP should confer with other recipients of settlement funds from the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill and/or organizations active in community resilience about collaborative efforts on common program elements. The GRP can advance the development of a resilience framework throughout the Gulf region.
From page 81...
... As a result, the GRP could offer guidance on the long-term impacts of community resilience in the Gulf region in the three decades following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Long-term Community Resilience Assessments Building community resilience occurs over timelines measured in years.
From page 82...
... Linking various data sources, information, and scientific methods to resilience priorities requires participation of data science experts to advance collective knowledge about factors influencing community resilience, including slow-moving stressors such as climate change, housing shortages, the persistent burden of health disparities, or the legacy effects of community historical trauma. A longitudinal community resilience research program would strengthen methods to conduct integrated analyses and data synthesis across different types of data and information to generate new metrics of resilience.
From page 83...
... CONCLUSION The need to build resilience across the Gulf region has never been more acute. Compared to other Gulf Coast organizations engaged in the aftermath of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the GRP is in a unique position to substantially advance community resilience.


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