In the last few decades, disaster risk reduction programs and climate initiatives across the globe have focused largely on the intimate connections between vulnerability, recovery, adaptation, and coping mechanisms. Recent focus, however, is increasingly paid to community resilience. Community, placed at the intersection between the household and national levels of social organization, is cruci...

There is considerable federal interest in disaster resilience as a mechanism for mitigating the impacts to local communities, yet the identification of metrics and standards for measuring resilience remain a challenge. This paper provides a methodology and a set of indicators for measuring baseline characteristics of communities that foster resilience. By establishing baseline conditions, it be...

This project aims to develop a loss model and related measures of community resilience for the Los Angeles lifeline study. It focuses on social and economic dimensions of resilience. In Year 7, the L.A. loss model is being refined by undertaking preliminary investigation of performance objectives (from the perspective of utilities), modeling impacts on hospitals, and integrating with related MC...

<p>Economic Resilience is a dynamic condition of the nation's economic life that contains tenacity and resilience ability to develop national strength in facing overcoming all threats, obstacles, disturbances, challenges originating from abroad within country. Asymmetric war involves two or more actors through broad battlefield includes Trigatra (geography, demography, natural resources) ...

Resilience has emerged as a policy response in an era of public concern about disasters and risks that include fear of terrorism and environmental or economic catastrophe. Resilience is both a refreshing and a problematic concept. It is refreshing in that it creates new opportunities for interdisciplinary research and vividly reminds us that the material world matters in our social lives, polit...