Measures of Community Resilience: From Lessons Learned to Lessons Applied: A Workshop

Workshop

July 14 - 15, 2015

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About

The development and use of resilience measures by and for communities are key elements in building community resilience. Although many kinds of resilience measures and measurement tools have been developed, very few have been put into regular use by communities. A “bottom-up” approach in which communities develop, adapt, and use their own resilience measures is important but not easy for communities to implement. A major challenge for communities in developing their own approaches to resilience measures is often knowing where and how to begin.

Resilient America hosted a workshop that brought together representatives from several communities in the United States, and members of the Resilient America Roundtable and the workshop committee, to share knowledge and experiences in developing and implementing community resilience measures.

The overarching goal of this workshop was for communities to gain new knowledge and practical information about how to advance their efforts to develop and implement resilience objectives and measures.

During the workshop, community representatives discussed the following questions:

What is the resilience vision for your community?
What are the major hazards and risks your community faces?
What are your community’s main assets, advantages, and capabilities? What are your community’s challenges related to these assets?

The community representatives then worked in groups to discuss, develop and identify ways to measure the resilience of different key components or assets within their communities:

Physical/Built Environment = the built environment, including critical infrastructure (examples of components: roads, the power grid, dams)
Natural Environment = natural resources, non-engineered structures, and associated eco-system services (examples of components: wetlands, flood protection, water)
Social/Wellness Environment = the capacity for people to connect with each other (examples of components: community organizations, informal meeting space, social networks)
Human Environment = the sum of people’s skills, knowledge, labor and good health (examples of components: education, workforce, healthcare)
Financial/Economic Environment = level, variability, and diversity of income sources, and access to financial resources that contribute to wealth and enable investment in community capacity building (examples of components: financial systems and services, employment opportunities)
Governance/Leadership Environment = leadership, governance, and power (examples of components: the ability to influence and enforce policy, standards, rules, regulations)

Contact

Charlene Milliken

Resilience@nas.edu

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