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Developing a Framework for Measuring Community Resilience: Summary of a Workshop

Developing a Framework for Measuring Community Resilience: Summary of a Workshop

Resilient America Roundtable
National Research Council
Policy and Global Affairs

Paperback

Environmental StudiesGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0309347386
ISBN13: 9780309347389
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: Apr 26 2015
Pages: 49
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.25 Width: 8.28 Depth: 10.80
Language: English

The 2012 National Research Council report Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative highlighted the challenges of increasing national resilience in the United States. One finding of the report was that without numerical means of assessing resilience, it would be impossible to identify the priority needs for improvement, to monitor changes, to show that resilience had improved, or to compare the benefits of increasing resilience with the associated costs. Although measuring resilience is a challenge, metrics and indicators to evaluate progress, and the data necessary to establish the metric, are critical for helping communities to clarify and formalize what the concept of resilience means for them, and to support efforts to develop and prioritize resilience investments. One of the recommendations from the 2012 report stated that government entities at federal, state, and local levels and professional organizations should partner to help develop a framework for communities to adapt to their circumstances and begin to track their progress toward increasing resilience.

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