Research Catalog

Title

Building and measuring community resilience : actions for communities and the Gulf Research Program / Committee on Measuring Community Resilience ; Office of Special Projects ; Policy and Global Affairs.

Publication

• Washington, DC : the National Academies Press [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Measuring Community Resilience.
• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Office of Special Projects.
• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Policy and Global Affairs.

Description

xviii, 133 pages : color illustrations, map; 23 cm.

Summary

"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.

Series Statement

A consensus study report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine

Uniform Title

Consensus study report.

Alternative Title

Actions for communities and the Gulf Research Program

Subjects

• Gulf Research Program
• 2005
• United States > Gulf States
• Social conditions
• Hurricane Katrina, 2005 > Social conditions
• Hurricane Katrina (2005)
• Communities
• Natural disasters > Gulf States
• Disaster relief > Gulf States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Evaluation of existing resilience measurement efforts -- Ground truthing how communities measure resilience -- For communities : actions for building and measuring community resilience -- For the Gulf Research Program : ways forward for building and measuring community resilience in the Gulf Region.

ISBN

• 9780309489720
• 0309489725

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries