Full Title: Developing a Framework for Measuring Community Resilience: Summary of Workshop
Author(s): Dominic A. Brose
Publisher(s): National Research Council of the National Academies Press
Publication Date: January 1, 2015
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Description (excerpt):
The 2012 National Research Council report Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative highlighted the challenges of increasing national resilience in the United States. The report, sponsored by eight federal agencies and a community resilience organization, was national in scope and extended to stakeholders beyond the Washington, D.C. governmental community to recognize that experiential information necessary to understand national resilience lies in communities across the United States.1 One finding issued by the committee was that “without numerical means of assessing resilience, it would be impossible to identify the priority needs for improvement, to monitor changes, to show that resilience had improved, or to compare the benefits of increasing resilience with the associated costs.”