Compounding Disasters in Gulf Coast Communities 2020-2021 Impacts, Findings, and Lessons Learned (2024) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix A: Glossary
Appendix A: Glossary
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They are presented for the purpose of establishing a shared understanding of how terms are used in this report, and unless particularly addressed within a recommendation in this report, are not intended for any other purpose than establishing a shared understanding between the committee and the reader. The following terms are used extensively throughout this report and the associated definitions represent the consensus of the committee, unless otherwise noted in the report content.
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It dismantles barriers, considers underlying stresses, creates opportunities, and enables learning through iterative evaluation and sustained engagement and intentionally incorporates recognitional, procedural, contextual, and distributional principles of equity in design, planning, and execution. ADAPTIVE CAPACITY: The ability of systems, institutions, and humans to adjust to potential damage, to take advantage of opportunities, or to respond to consequences (USGCRP, 2023)
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These subsequent and unanticipated crises can be exacerbated by the failure of physical structures, and the social functions that depend on them, including critical facilities, or by the inadequacy of disaster mitigation strategies, such as evacuation procedures, land-use planning and emergency management strategies. Cascading disasters tend to highlight unresolved vulnerabilities in human society.
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The occurrence of a disruptive event is time bound, though the impacts may persist indefinitely. For example, a hurricane is a disruptive event defined by specific meteorological conditions related to the organization and intensity of the storm system.
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. Over the past decade, research has demonstrated that climate change due to global warming has made many extreme weather events more likely, more intense, longer-lasting, or larger in scale than they would have been without it (NOAA, 2024)
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. PARTICIPATORY PLANNING: Participatory planning processes seek to engage and empower community members, especially marginalized people and those disproportionately affected by disasters to proactively engage in planning processes that build close partnerships with local and regional governments and strengthen community leadership and local capacities, including by providing flexible resources -- such as financing -- directly to community-based organizations to help them prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from, and more successfully adapt to adverse events (modified and adapted from Mfitumukiza et al., 2020)
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. STRUCTURAL RACISM: The public and private policies, institutional practices, norms, and cultural representations that inherently procure unequal freedom, opportunity, value, resources, advantage, restrictions, constraints, or disadvantage for individuals and populations according to their race and ethnicity both across the life course and between generations (NASEM, 2022c)
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