Building and Measuring Community Resilience - Actions for Communities and the Gulf Research Program

"The frequency and severity of disasters over the last few decades have presented unprecedented challenges for communities across the United States. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina exposed the complexity and breadth of a deadly combination of existing community stressors, aging infrastructure, and a powerful natural hazard. In many ways, the devastation of Hurricane Katrina was a turning point for understanding and managing disasters, as well as related plan making and policy formulation. It brought the phrase "community resilience" into the lexicon of disaster management. Building and Measuring Community Resilience: Actions for Communities and the Gulf Research Program summarizes the existing portfolio of relevant or related resilience measurement efforts and notes gaps and challenges associated with them. It describes how some communities build and measure resilience and offers four key actions that communities could take to build and measure their resilience in order to address gaps identified in current community resilience measurement efforts. This report also provides recommendations to the Gulf Research Program to build and measure resilience in the Gulf of Mexico region"--Publisher's description.

Product details

• Authors: Committee on Measuring Community Resilience, National Academies Of Sciences Engineeri, National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine, Office of Special Projects, Policy And Global Affairs
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780309489720
• ISBN: 978-0-309-48972-0
• No. of pages: 152
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy