From Disaster Management to Resilient Communities

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From Disaster Management to Resilient Communities
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Introductions

• Matthew Lieuallen Senior Emergency Planner
• Amy DiCarlantonio Senior Planner

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Learning Objectives

• Define a working definition of Resilience
• Identify easy to understand metrics to measure
  community resilience
• Review steps you can take to increase your
  communitys resilience
• Share resources for continued growth

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Northwest Resilience Planning Efforts

• Resilient Washington State A Framework for
  Minimizing Loss and Improving Statewide Recovery
  after and Earthquake
• Washington State Seismic Safety Committee
  Emergency Management Council
• The Oregon Resilience Plan
• Oregon Seismic Safety Policy Advisory Commission

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Defining Resilience

• Merriam Webster
• The capability of a strained body to recover its
  size and shape after deformation caused
  especially by compressive stress.
• An ability to recover from or adjust easily to
  misfortune or change.

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Defining Resilience

• FEMA National Preparedness Goal
• Mission Area Mitigation
• Core Capability Community Resilience
• Lead the integrated effort to recognize,
  understand, communicate, plan, and address risks
  so that the community can develop a set of
  actions to accomplish mitigation and improve
  resilience.

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Defining Resilience

• Resilient Washington State Initiative
• A resilient state is one that maintains services
  and livelihoods after an earthquake. In the event
  that services and livelihoods are disrupted,
  recovery occurs rapidly, with minimal social
  disruption, and results in a new and better
  condition. In accordance with this definition, a
  number of values have been established for
  Washington State to achieve resilience.

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Community Resilience

• a society that is flexible and able to adjust
  in the face of uncertainty and surprise is also
  able to capitalize on positive opportunities the
  future may bring.
• Berkes and Folke 1998 Barnett 2001

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Elements of Resilience
Longstaff, Patricia H. et al. Building Resilient
Communities A Preliminary Framework for
Assessment. Homeland Security Affairs 6, issue 3
(September 2010)http//www.hsaj.org/?article6.3.
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Disaster Resilience
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Moving Beyond Emergency Management
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Regional Economic Capacity

• Income Equality
• Economic Diversity

• Regional Affordability
• Business Environment

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Pathways to Community Resilience

• Educational Attainment
• Without Disability
• Out of Poverty
• Health Insured

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Community Connectivity Capacity

• Civic Infrastructure
• Metropolitan Stability
• Home Ownership
• Voter Participation

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Ecological Capacity

• Reuse
• Infrastructure
• Buildings
• Land
• Water
• Products

• Quality
• Air
• Water
• Nutrients
• Habitat

• Efficiency
• Transportation
• Buildings
• Land
• Water
• Materials

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Pathways to Community Resilience

1. Play Together
2. Get Organized
3. Focus on the Whole Community
4. Think Outside of the Box

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Play Together

• Regional Planning and Collaboration
• Regional Problems require Regional Solutions
• Systems dont stop at Political Boundaries
• Efficiency through Economies of Scale

• Develop a Shared Vision Plan
• Envision a future that inspires
• Identify barriers to overcome
• Agree on and prioritize actions
• Determine who needs to be involved

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Get Organized

• Identify, Protect Enhance Unique Assets
• What makes you special?
• Identify your differentiators
• There are no Silver Bullets
• Bigger is not always better
• Trends fade over time

• Do Your Homework!
• Game Over . past trends are no longer reliable
  predictors
• Know your baselines
• Keep your eye on the ball

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Focus on the Whole Community

• Leverage Public Private Partnerships
• Expand resources benefits
• Share risk
• Look for new partners and structures

• Engage Empower Citizens
• EVERYONE has something to contribute
• Sometimes the process is more important than the
  outcome
• People take care of what they are vested in

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Think Outside the Box

• Encourage Creativity Innovation
• Incentivize going beyond the standard
• Avoid prescriptive solutions
• Understand the market technology is changing
  faster than policy

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QUESTIONS?
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THANK YOU!