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2 Resilience Now and Going Forward
2 Resilience Now and Going Forward
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If you had to make a decision, what would you do next? " She encouraged participants to not only highlight what has already been done to build resilience, but to also consider what the future of resilience looks like and the next big questions that need to be addressed.
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First, an integrated systems approach brings together technological, societal, health, emergency, security, economic, political, environmental, and other systems that work in harmony and are interdependent with each other. He provided the hypothetical example of creating open green space in communities that could restrain floodwaters during high water events, and simultaneously benefit local ecosystem processes, increase property values, and strengthen the social fabric of the community.
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This discussion focused on ways that local officials can and should use policy tools to increase community resilience nationwide. She opened the session by asking the panelists, "How do you get politicians to want to do something and spend money on something that, if it goes right, no one will notice?
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He noted the cross-Bronx expressway in New York City as an example of infrastructure that is extremely resilient from an engineering perspective; its construction, however, divided the north and south sides of the city, creating a community of downward mobility and contributing to the city's resilience challenges. Berkowitz concluded, "To design and build a bridge which is an engineering feat that is resilient is one thing, but to design infrastructure that makes the city more resilient is something else." Fugate commented on the commonly expressed resilience goal of building back better, which, in practice, often means building back based on cost–benefit analysis.
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2 The Green Infrastructure Support Tool, created by the Earth Genome Project, in collaboration with Arizona State University, Dow, and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, "identifies and evaluates wetland restoration opportunities to support a more predictable and sustainable water supply to the Freeport facility. Wetlands store water during deluge and release water during dry spells, much like engineered solutions like reservoirs."
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Andrea Seabrook introduced Mayor Michael Seibert of Joplin, M issouri; County Commissioner Chip LaMarca of Broward County, F lorida; and Mayor Ben McAdams of Salt Lake County, Utah, to discuss actions that their communities are taking to build local resilience. Mayor Seibert began by talking about the devastating tornado that
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He cited that in a recent year, 53.3 million tourists spent $14.2 billion in Florida, with the majority of them spending at least some time on the beach. County Commissioner LaMarca stated, "If that beach isn't there, they're not coming." Mayor McAdams noted that disaster is inevitable for every community and shared some of the steps Salt Lake County is taking to be prepared for an event.
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, strict building codes, and back-up power for critical locations; with policies instituted over the past 10 years, back-up power is now required for places such as cell phone towers, health facilities, and gas stations on interstate highways. Mayor Seibert also cited changes in home-building rules.
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Mayor McAdams stated that while the risk of an earthquake is of most concern for Salt Lake County, changing climate patterns are having a distinct impact on its flooding and wildfire risk. He raised the issue of declining snowpack, which accounts for half of the ounty's drinking water supply; lighter snowpack also means a higher c incidence of wildfires.
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When you're faced with a disaster, it's too late to realize that you have the wrong people in the wrong positions." County Commissioner LaMarca asserted the need for public servants to serve their constituents in the face of a crisis despite philosophical or political differences, and highlighted the need for elected leaders to listen to what the community is telling them. Finally, Mayor McAdams stated that there is an opportunity for political leadership to expand the discussion beyond family and home to community awareness, and use community-wide emergency drills like the Utah Shake-Out.
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Nicholas supported the idea as a way to create an overarching focus on resilience that includes comprehensive investment spanning economics, social cohesion, and environment. Bonilla also favored a national chief resilience officer, noting that though a great deal of good planning is accomplished within an organization's own sphere of resilience, silos can inhibit an organization's ability to meet challenges in a flexible and adaptive way.
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" Kaiser Permanente's own resilience activities encompass business continuity, crisis management, disaster recovery, and physical and cybersecurity. Bonilla spoke about how a fundamental element of Kaiser's resilience is its people, "how well do our people know their role in resilience, embrace it, and own it while they're at work and at home, and how does that radiate into a community level of preparedness and resilience?
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For example, restoring oyster reefs can reduce storm surge, which can reduce the risk of catastrophic storms as well as provide multiple other benefits including enhanced fisheries, aesthetic benefits, and other related economic benefits. Scarlett advocated a forward-looking approach.
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concluded the leadership forum by talking about his experiences building resilience through the USACE. He emphasized the Corps' broad experience with extreme events and wars over its 241 years of existence, most recently with droughts, Hurricanes Katrina and Isaac, floods on the Mississippi River in Missouri and West Virginia, and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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See http://www.nad.usace.army.mil/CompStudy. 6 Executive Order – Establishing a Federal Flood Risk Management Standard and a Process for Further Soliciting and Considering Stakeholder Input (https://obamawhitehouse.
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