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Resilience

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Modeling Community Resilience: Update on the Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning and the Computational Environment IN-CORE

November 15, 2018
Author(s)
John W. van de Lindt, Bruce Ellingwood, Therese P. McAllister, Paolo Gardoni, Daniel Cox, Walter G. Peacock, Harvey Cutler, Maria Dillard, Jong Lee, Lori Peek, Judith Mitrani-Reiser
Community resilience is often defined as the ability of a community to prepare for, absorb, and recover rapidly from a hazard event. In 2015, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) funded the Center for Risk-Based Community

The Lumberton, North Carolina Flood of 2016: A Community Resilience Focused Technical Investigation

October 29, 2018
Author(s)
John W. van de Lindt, Walter G. Peacock, Judith Mitrani-Reiser, Nathanael Rosenheim, Derya Deniz, Maria Dillard, Tori Tomiczek, Maria Koliou, Andrew Graettinger, Patrick Crawford, Kenneth W. Harrison, Andre Barbosa, Jennifer Tobin, Jennifer Helgeson, Lori Peek, Mehrdad Memari, Elaina Sutley, Sara Hamideh, Donghwan Gu, Stephen A. Cauffman, Juan Fung
In early October 2016 Hurricane Matthew crossed North Caroline as a category 1 storm with some areas receiving 15-18 inches of rainfall on already saturated soil. The NIST-funded Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning teamed with researchers

The Center of Excellence for Community Risk-Based Resilience Planning

October 12, 2018
Author(s)
Therese P. McAllister, John W. van de Lindt, Bruce Ellingwood, Walter G. Peacock, Harvey Cutler, Paolo Gardoni, Daniel Cox
Community resilience depends on the performance of the built environment and on supporting social, economic and public institutions which, individually and collectively, are essential for the functioning and recovery of a community following a disaster. A

A Computable General Equilibrium Model of Cedar Rapids

September 27, 2018
Author(s)
Jennifer Helgeson, Juan Fung, Cheyney O'Fallon, David Webb, Harvey Cutler
This report presents the development of a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model for the regional economy of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The general approach that this case study takes is outlined in Helgeson et al. [1] as a method to quantify the net co

Research Needs to Support Immediate Occupancy Building Performance Following Natural Hazard Events

August 21, 2018
Author(s)
Siamak Sattar, Therese P. McAllister, Katherine J. Johnson, Christopher T. Clavin, Christopher L. Segura, Steven L. McCabe, Juan F. Fung, Leslie Abrahams, Emily Sylak-Glassman , Marc L. Levitan, Kenneth W. Harrison, John L. Harris
The performance of buildings in our communities depends on multiple factors including the availability of supporting infrastructure, the original design, the current condition and capacity to resist hazard impacts, and the ability to recover functionality

Using the IES-City Framework

July 31, 2018
Author(s)
Martin J. Burns, Joe Manganelli
This paper introduces a use case for using the IES-City Framework artifacts and methodology in the acquisition of a new smart city feature. Involving city management and potential service providers, it shows how this new feature can be acquired with

THE INTERDEPENDENT NETWORKED COMMUNITY RESILIENCE MODELING ENVIRONMENT (IN-CORE)

June 22, 2018
Author(s)
Paolo Gardoni, John W. van de Lindt, Bruce Ellingwood, Therese P. McAllister, Jong Lee, Harvey Cutler, Daniel Cox
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) funded the multi-university five-year Center of Excellence for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning (CoE), headquartered at Colorado State University, to develop the measurement science to

A Critical Appraisal of Community Resilience Studies: Progress and Challenges

January 8, 2018
Author(s)
Maria Koliou, John W. van de Lindt, Bruce Ellingwood, Maria Dillard, Harvey Cutler, Therese P. McAllister
Community resilience, which has been defined as the ability to prepare for and recover from disruptive hazard events, has been addressed across multiple disciplines including environmental sciences, engineering, sociology, psychology and economics

The Economic Decision Guide Software (EDGeS) Tool: User Guidance

November 20, 2017
Author(s)
Jennifer F. Helgeson, Shannon A. Grubb, David H. Webb
The EDGeS (Economic Decision Guide Software) Tool version 1.0 implements a rational, systemic methodology for selecting cost-effective community resilience alternative strategies. The methodology is based on guidance provided in the NIST “Community

Vulnerability and Robustness of Civil Infrastructure Systems to Hurricanes

October 10, 2017
Author(s)
Shuoqi Wang, Dorothy Reed
Civil infrastructure systems play an important role in community resilience. Without proper functioning of the infrastructure, especially power delivery, society will not recover quickly from disruptive events, such as hurricanes. In this paper, the

Developing an Assessment Methodology for Community Resilience

August 21, 2017
Author(s)
Maria Dillard
Communities can be characterized as complex systems, with resilience as an emergent property. Complex systems are systems composed of interconnected parts that exhibit emergent properties that arise from the collective and cannot be derived from the

Guide Brief 12 Short-Term Implementation Tasks

May 1, 2017
Author(s)
Community Resilience Program NIST
This Guide Brief offers suggestions for short-term implementation tasks, as well as short-term activities, that support continual engagement during the overall planning process. Implementing short-term administrative solutions can help improve resilience
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