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1 Resilience Measures in Context and Workshop Goals
1 Resilience Measures in Context and Workshop Goals
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. The Roundtable helps communities and the nation build resilience to extreme events, save lives, and reduce the physical and economic costs of disasters; a core part of this work is the community pilot partnership program in which the Roundtable partners with communities across the country to help community decision makers and stakeholders build approaches for deciding how and where to invest resources to mitigate risk and build resilience in ways that allow them to explain and communicate those investment decisions. The Roundtable's pilot communities are: Charleston, South Carolina; Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Seattle, Washington; and Tulsa, Oklahoma.3 1 EffectiveJuly 1, 2015, the institution is called the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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Most participants represented urban areas and included climate and energy analysts; city and regional planners; emergency managers; city officials with expertise in health, community preparedness and resilience, flood recovery, and transportation planning; representatives from community organizations; and researchers and educators. In addition to the representatives from these 11 communities, other workshop participants included members of the workshop planning committee, the Resilient America Roundtable, and National Academies' staff (see Appendix C for biographies of speakers and the planning committee)
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In the United States alone, floods, hurricanes, wildfires, windstorms, and other natural hazards collectively kill or injure thousands of people each year and cost billions of dollars in damages.4 Resilience, as defined in the 2012 NRC report, is the "ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from, or more successfully adapt to actual or potential adverse events." The report stressed that having greater resilience to these types of extreme events can help reduce risks and vulnerability, decrease costs, and mitigate impacts.5 Four key recommendations for building community resilience were articulated in the 2012 NRC report; these recommendations provide the foundation for the Roundtable: 1. Understand and communicate disaster risk.
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For example, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) uses the Community Rating System;7 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has a number of community resilience assessment tools, such as the Coastal Resilience Index;8 the National Institute of Standards and Technology is developing the Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems,9 and the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction has developed a checklist of the 10 essentials for making resilient cities.10 Dr.
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Examples of the resilience visions, hazards, community assets, and challenges shared by the community representatives are included in Table 1-2. Many important elements and challenges for building community resilience were identified; however, one area that was not directly mentioned was incentives: an important topic that might be explored in a future activity.
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SOURCE: Compiled by the Resilient America Roundtable Staff based on comments and feedback provided by Developing Community Resilience Measures Workshop participants.
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