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3 Community Resilience
3 Community Resilience
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Brenner, senior manager for global communications at the 100 Resilient Cities program pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation; and Lauren Alexander Augustine, director of the Program on Risk, Resilience, and Extreme Events at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies) about how resilience efforts are making a difference in communities and ways to scale efforts regionally and nationally.
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Chakos asked Brenner to talk about common themes that have emerged from the 100 Resilient Cities work and discuss how the cities are planning to pivot from developing resilient strategies to implementation. Brenner stated that each city develops a city resilience strategy and that these strategies have helped the cities identify new ways to assess risk, think differently about implementation, and identify new partners to bring to the table from the private, public, and other sectors.
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She works on building disability competencies, practice competencies, and actionable competencies in health care and emergency management; developing courses for FEMA; and assisting states, cities, and counties in developing inclusive emergency plans. Kailes explained that the people for whom she advocates constitute 50 percent of
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In addition, as part of its mission to build an inclusive city, the District of Columbia is revising its comprehensive plan to include resilience and incorporating a range of issues from the age-friendly approach such as access to transportation, housing, community health services, long-term care, social participation, respect, and inclusion. Robin Pfohman, program manager for the Community Resilience + Equity program in the Department of Public Health in Seattle and King County, Washington, discussed her work with a King County community resilience framework focused on health, equity, and climate change.
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In a second example, Kailes described advocacy efforts focused on the need to accommodate people with disabilities in shelters designed for the general population, by providing a few specific alterations. Kailes described how disability advocates asked the Red Cross to observe the Americans with Disabilities Act, to update their policies and procedures to engage in community partnerships with the disability community, and to provide a management position for a disability inclusion coordinator.
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She believes that opportunities around resilience are broader and urged approaching resilience not with the assumption of deficit but as an opportunity to address existing inequities, linking disaster preparedness to daily life. Kailes advised leaders to "embrace the fact that an emergency dogma is perishable and should have a short expiration date." She advocated infusing practices based on new, evolving information, economics, laws, technology, values, products, and services.
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He noted that while these organizations are now primarily in upper-income neighborhoods, the District of Columbia is trying to foster connections in other neighborhoods through faith-based and community-based organizations. Regarding metrics, Kushner said that often the government has only partial data on different communities and suggested a need to work with other community organizations to tap into existing efforts to collect additional information, through annual health surveys, for example.
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Herb referred attendees to the 2011 report Improving Health in the United States: The Role of Health Impact Assessment.3 She described how HIAs bring together data from the public health literature and local knowledge of residents to make predictions about the health impacts of a given decision point. After Superstorm Sandy, the New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance 2 Institute of Medicine.
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flooding? " For Little Egg Harbor, the health factors studied included mental health impacts, likelihood of injury, and impacts resulting from evacuations, power outages, and disruptions in infrastructure.
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The moderator asked how the panelists responded to city or county collaborators who felt adding health considerations was overloading already full plates. Herb responded that using HIAs to guide resilience work makes
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As Macchione phrased it, "Vulnerable does not necessarily equal not resilient." Lastly, Grant reminded everyone that building healthy communities takes time and there are critical decision points along the way. BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS AND COALITIONS Jane Cage of Joplin, Missouri, a volunteer with the Citizen Listening Effort and Long-Term Recovery Plan after the city's tornado disaster in 2011, cited the African proverb, "If you want to go fast, go alone, but if you want to go far, go together," to introduce the discussion on how communities can build stronger partnerships and networks to address their resilience challenges.
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The Bay Area faces a variety of natural hazards, from drought and sea level rise to seismic activity and socioeconomic challenges. ABAG convenes activities around relevant issues in the region, for example, strategic water use and conservation and earthquake risk.
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Dan Burger, chair of the Charleston Resilience Network and director of the Coastal Services Division for the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) , described DHEC's efforts to understand coastal hazards and vulnerabilities -- hurricanes, sea level rise, storm surge -- and the impact on socioeconomic continuity, natural resources, and the built environment.
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Both Chion and Burger noted the importance of social or political recognition for their respective groups. Specifically, ABAG has benefited from recognition through the 100 Resilient Cities program and the CRN was identified as a key organization in the city of Charleston's Sea Level Rise Strategy.
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Moreover, how can a community measure resilience to meet the needs of different "customers"? Barnes noted three federal initiatives focused on resilience metrics: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Resilience Toolkit;8 the recently released inter-agency concept paper, Draft Interagency Concept for Community Resilience Indicators and National-Level Measure;9 and FEMA's preparedness grants, which require that grantees demonstrate how their investments are building or sustaining a core capability.
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Following a leadership change in 2014, the program evolved into the CIP with the goal of measuring the impact of the city's work on the community. The CIP now reports on 30 community indicators and Larson's unit combines these into groups of one to three indicators to create analytical and insight-driven reports; this culminates in a roundtable discussion that brings together city staff and elected officials, other government agency representatives, and subject-matter experts from the community.
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Molly O'Donnell is a resiliency planner and project manager for the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) infrastructure program for the Boulder County Collaborative (the Collaborative)
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CLIMATE ADAPTATION AND RESILIENCE Eduardo Martinez, president of the UPS Foundation and co-chair of the Resilient America Roundtable, introduced the afternoon sessions by emphasizing the community aspect of resilience. UPS believes that support
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Jennifer Molloy, of the U.S. Environmental Protection A gency's Water Permits Division, administers many aspects of the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act and described her work on water quality and water quantity.
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Lindsey works on neighborhood resilience supporting community organizations that are already doing much of the resilience work. A major challenge is that available funding tends to focus on recovery and is restricted to communities damaged in a disaster, for example, by Superstorm Sandy.
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For example, many neighborhoods, smaller community-based organizations, and faith-based community groups have organized around environmental justice for years. She described a grassroots climate adaptation effort in northern Manhattan with a very high level of community participation.
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An audience member spoke to the importance of cooperative research among the climate and weather science community, the engineering community, and the social sciences community to properly characterize what climate weather extremes will be in the future and understand the effects on the public. Systems need to be designed to a reasonable estimate of future climate weather extremes, so that they are adaptable to more severe conditions.
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Whereas the benefit with the natural systems is that it's easy to add more trees or whatever element it is." INCENTIVIZING RESILIENCE Kevin Long, emergency management specialist with the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration, introduced the final session as an exploration of how we can continue to foster and grow resilience in communities, including incentivizing resilience in ways that resonate with different parts of a community, its residents, leaders, and businesses. Long introduced three panelists: Alex Kaplan, senior vice president of global partnerships at the reinsurance company Swiss Re; Sarene Marshall, executive director of the Center for Sustainability at the Urban Land Institute; and Sandy Fowler, assistant city manager of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and asked them to describe some of their work related to incentivizing resilience.
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government spent more on climate risk than on education or transportation. Swiss Re and the Economics of Climate Adaptation (ECA)
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The modeling suggests that the increase in losses is split evenly between losses driven by sea level rise and those driven by more severe hurricanes."17 Kaplan stated that this is not indexing for inflation or economic growth but rather it is pure climate figures. With these data, the city has the tools to have a real conversation with the community because there is a money value associated with future loss and potential solutions to address those losses.
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Marshall introduced the Urban Land Institute (ULI) as a membership organization that works with real estate professionals to help the industry understand how to use land responsibly.
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The city also initiated an effort to increase the number of households with flood insurance; to make flood insurance more affordable, Cedar Rapids participates in FEMA's Community Rating System.20 In addition, the city participates in a cross-jurisdiction watershed management project called the Middle Cedar Partnership Project,21 with partners that include The Nature Conservancy. The project engages farmers far north of the city in managing water on their land and incentivizing farmers to take land out of production and decrease run-off.
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It is important to make it personal by putting the risk in dollar terms and make clear the ramifications of not taking action. Fowler noted that a discussion about storm water fees got Cedar Rapids residents' attention, and prompted robust discussions about ways they can decrease run-off and increase water infiltration on their properties.
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