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2022 Bronze Medal Award
AWARD CITATION
The group is recognized for developing the EDGe$ online tool and standardizing an economic methodology for making sound investment decisions to improve community resilience to hazard events. The tool helps the user to identify and compare the full set of present and future resilience costs and benefits associated with new capital investments versus maintaining a community’s status quo, enabling, for the first time, communities to comprehensively evaluate alternative projects and strategies for improved future resilience.