An Assessment of Selected Programs at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Engineering Laboratory Fiscal Year 2020 (2021) / Chapter Skim
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The CRP's product portfolio includes science-based tools to assess resilience and support informed decision-making for communities through guidance documents, computer programs, and disaster and failure studies, with the ultimate goal of reducing the impact of natural hazards and improving recovery. A major product with respect to community engagement is disaster resilience 1 Executive Office of the President, 2011, Presidential Policy Directive/PPD-8, National Preparedness.
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The CRP's work on resilience indicators will also help communities process the large amounts of data available for physical infrastructure and contribute to decision-making with respect to preparation and recovery from disasters. Relevant information on measuring community resilience is also available from a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's publication that articulates six interdependent community capitals.3 The value of the indicators at the community level can be enhanced by collaborating with vulnerable communities living in disaster-prone geographic regions, including the U.S.
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Challenges and Opportunities To maximize the portfolio of CRP products applicable to the most vulnerable communities, there is an opportunity to expand the CRP team beyond the social science expertise. Other human health scientists -- especially public health, environmental health, community planners, and disaster management scientists -- can play an important role in facilitating the translation of data into reliance action at the community level.
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Two international workshops were held, in Dulles, Virginia, and Ispra, Italy, in 2016 and 2017, respectively. The CRP has disseminated planning guides, economic assessments, public alerts, system models, assessment methods, repositories, and tools, such as the NEHRI DesignSafe Household and Building Damage Surveys.
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The Applied Economics Office recently published NIST Special Publication 1258, Complex Event Resilience of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Natural Disaster Planning During the COVID-19 Pandemic.7 This is a timely focus on the impacts of a pandemic on community resilience. The CRP could be a valuable source of content to support the development of courses and training modules for professional certification and postsecondary (associates, bachelors, and masters)
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RECOMMENDATION: The Community Resilience Program should enhance its valuable and meritorious work by heightening its focus on factors that directly impact people, including close coordination with related activities being performed by local, national, and global stakeholders in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors, especially public health entities. Portfolio of Expertise Scientific expertise in the CRP is evident in the competent and qualified engineering team in the areas of the organization's mission and program objectives.
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It is not clear how this work directly benefits the practitioners in community planning, emergency management, and other disciplines that will need to implement change. Although implied, the CRP does not specifically call out the need to address resilience measures through the lens of particularly vulnerable populations such as the poor, elderly, and medically compromised, who suffer disproportionally during hazard events.
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Expanding dissemination of the community resilience products beyond the current channels (federal agencies and engineering academic partners) to state and local agencies, especially health departments, local decision makers, and community organizations, could greatly increase the impact of the CRP at minimal cost and effort.
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