Skip to main content

Currently Skimming:

Part 3 Prioritization Framework
Pages 37-52

The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.


From page 37...
... THE PRIORITIZATION CRITERIA Figure 3-1 depicts the master set of criteria, an aggregation of the criteria reviewed by each of the four groups on Day 3 of the workshop that supports a prioritization framework for infrastructure resilience projects in the Gulf region. More detailed explanations of the subcriteria are provided later in this section.
From page 38...
... Workshop designers concluded that careful attention should be paid to asking what is truly necessary for effective assessment. Finally, the session on Day 3 dedicated to the identification of project risk and how that risk might impact the criteria, revealed the need to add a single new sub-criterion, "accounting for cyber/physical security implications." FIGURE 3-1 Criteria that support a prioritization framework for infrastructure projects in the Gulf of Mexico region.
From page 39...
... These often also appear in other frameworks that serve to help prioritize investments to increase infrastructure resilience, even if the sub-criteria are understood or defined a bit differently across the various sources. Descriptions in the tables include perspectives from the workshop participants; the footnotes offer examples of how select subcriteria appear in other well-known frameworks that informed development of the framework and design of the workshop.
From page 40...
... Climate Changeb Participants argued that to be prioritized, projects should address climate change, and they identified several ways for projects to satisfy this sub-criterion: Projects should work to adapt infrastructure to projected changes in climate Projects should improve knowledge of infrastructure sensitivities to climate change Projects should account for both current and future impacts of climate change; they should also improve existing conditions When modeling climate impacts, projects should assume worst-case projections and build infrastructure that will withstand these impacts, as well as account for uncertainty Participants commented that when choosing between two climate change projects, the one that offers multiple benefits should take priority. Degradation Participants suggested that projects should be prioritized if they focus on prevention preventing environmental degradation in the first place, over projects that focus on restoration and recovery.
From page 41...
... b SuRe® includes climate change in its criteria for receiving certification that an infrastructure project follows GIIP for sustainability and resilience in infrastructure. One SuRe criterion for climate change, Climate Change Mitigation, states that "the Project shall avoid, or if not feasible, reduce project related Greenhouse Gas (GHG)
From page 42...
... The Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Flood Mitigation Assistance Grant program also includes considerations of climate change in its scoring criteria: "… describe how the project will enhance climate adaptation and resilience, detail how the project is being responsive to the effects of climate change (such as sea level rise, increased rainfall, increased likelihood of flash flood due to wildfire, etc.)
From page 43...
... Further, this is important because there are downstream effects -- participants commented that maintaining a healthy tax base and thus resultant services helps encourage people to not leave the area, keeps unemployment down, and prevents other adverse impacts to the economy, and in turn to the people.
From page 44...
... See https://surestandard.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/ST01_Normative_Standard_v1.1_clean.pdf. d SuRe® includes direct employment and training in its criteria for receiving certification that an infrastructure project follows GIIP for sustainability and resilience in infrastructure: "the Project shall hire people from the local communities as workers, professionals and in managerial positions during construction and operation of the Project." SuRe provides additional language about this criterion in its publication.
From page 45...
... Unlike other sub-criteria, participants believed equity and inclusion cannot be assessed simply as a binary choice given the diversity in communities that exists across the Gulf region. Health and welfared Participants suggested that project proposals should include specific metrics to measure impacts of the project on human health and that projects should also monitor impact on human health throughout project implementation.
From page 46...
... b The Standard for Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure (SuRe®) includes stakeholder engagement as a category in its governance criteria for receiving certification that an infrastructure project follows Good International Industry Practice (GIIP)
From page 47...
... , if feasible; if not feasible, gray infrastructure projects that allow green infrastructure to be included should be prioritized. Information Participants explained that projects should directly address clearly how they will management and manage information and support transparent communications.
From page 48...
... The Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Flood Mitigation Assistance and Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities grant program includes "incorporation of nature-based solutions" as a scoring criteria.
From page 49...
... Data and information sharing should specifically include the sharing of best practices and lessons learned from past experiences. Feasibilityc Some participants believed a project proposal must specifically address why it is feasible.
From page 50...
... FEMA's Flood Mitigation Assistance Grant program does not necessarily include this as a sub-criterion, but it does conduct monitoring and oversight as part of its management process; it makes "site visits or conducting desk reviews to review project accomplishments and management control systems to review award progress and to provide any required technical assistance." See https://www.fema.gov/sites/default/files/documents/fema_nofo-fiscal-year-2021-flood-mitigation-assistancegrants.pdf. f FEMA's Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities grant program includes "leveraging partners" as an evaluation criteria, explained this way: "the project subapplication incorporates partnerships (e.g., state, tribal, private, local community, etc.)
From page 51...
... PRIORITIZATION FRAMEWORK 51 g SuRe® includes risk management in its criteria for receiving certification that an infrastructure project follows GIIP for sustainability and resilience in infrastructure, described this way: "the Project shall make regular and comprehensive assessment and management of current and future risks; including natural hazards, environmental, social, governance, policy, technological and economic risks relating to the construction and operation phases of The Project. Risks assessed shall include those caused by third parties' actions that have an impact on The Project's area of influence." See https://sure-standard.org/wpcontent/uploads/2019/10/ST01_Normative_Standard_v1.1_clean.pdf.


This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
More information on Chapter Skim is available.