Community Resilience Assessment Methodology Products: Research Overview

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August 4, 2025

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Maria Dillard, Michael Gerst, Tiffany Cousins, Donghwan Gu

Abstract

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) operates the Community Resilience Program (CRP) to help communities and stakeholders develop resilience and recovery solutions by focusing on the nexus of buildings, built infrastructure systems, and their supporting socioeconomic functions. Through science-based tools, guidance, and metrics, NIST aims to empower communities to improve their ability to prepare for, withstand, and recover from acute shocks, chronic stressors, and compound impacts. The Community Resilience Assessment Methodology Products project develops the tools for communities to quantitatively assess their resilience over time. This assessment is based on a comprehensive suite of community resilience indicators that capture essential elements of physical, social, and economic systems. Research areas include, but are not limited to: indicator validation studies, methods for downscaling indicators, and identifying actions that influence resilience outcomes. To support this work, tools have been developed and are available to the research team: 1) Inventory of Community Resilience Indicators & Assessment Frameworks and 2) Tracking Community Resilience (TraCR) database.

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NIST Research Brief (RB) - 8

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8

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NIST Pubs

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https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.RB.8

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Dillard, M. , Gerst, M. , Cousins, T. and Gu, D. (2025), Community Resilience Assessment Methodology Products: Research Overview, NIST Research Brief (RB), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.RB.8, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=960371 (Accessed May 11, 2026)

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