SoResilere—A Social Resilience Index Applied to Portuguese Flood Disaster-Affected Municipalities

Decades of academic discussion on social resilience have led to the development indicators, indexes, and different approaches assessing it at national local levels. The need show real-world applications such assessments is evident since became a political disaster risk reduction governance component. This article gives full description methodology used develop SoResilere, new index applied flood disaster-affected Portuguese municipalities. Study cases were selected according historical databases, sources governmental entities. Statistical methods for data dimension reduction, as Factor Analysis (through Principal Component Analysis), quantitative Optimal Scaling categorical data. SoResilere results analyzed. Since tool, component weighting was compare with no weighting, although did not affect status in 55.5% study cases. There tendency look improvement due mainly subindex. evidence benefits logical association or spatial pattern found support 22.22%