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Further Development of a Conceptual Framework for Assessing Resilience at the Community Scale

July 25, 2017

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Alexis Kwasinski, Royce Francis, Trainor Joseph, Cynthia Chen, Francis Lavelle

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is sponsoring the Community Resilience Assessment Methodology (CRAM) project. The CRAM project team is working in parallel with several other NIST initiatives, including: the Community Resilience

Probabilistic seismic and tsunami hazard analysis (PSTHA) conditioned on a mega-thrust rupture of the Cascadia Subduction Zone

June 15, 2017

Author(s)

Hyoungsu Park, Daniel Cox, Mohammad S. Alam, Andre Barbosa

This paper presents a framework for a probabilistic hazard assessment for the multi-hazard seismic and tsunami phenomena (PSTHA). For this work, we consider a full-rupture event along the Cascadia Subduction Zone and apply the methodology to the study area

Guide Brief 12  Short-Term Implementation Tasks

May 1, 2017

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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

Case Studies of Community Resilience and Disaster Recovery from the 2013 Boulder County Floods

April 25, 2017

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Christopher T. Clavin , Zoe E. Petropoulos, Nayanee Gupta, Christopher K. Tokita

Defining the Resilience Dividend: Accounting for Co-benefits of Resilience Planning

April 6, 2017

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Juan Fung, Jennifer Helgeson

This report presents the concept of the resilience dividend as a useful metric for community resilience planning. The report suggests defining the resilience dividend as the net co-benefit (or co-cost) of investing in enhanced resilience, in the absence of

The Interdependent Networked Community Resilience Modeling Environment (IN-CORE): Science, Structure and Examples

January 1, 2001

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John van de Lindt, Daniel Cox, Paolo Gardoni, Jong Lee, Jamie Padgett, Therese P. McAllister, Andre Barbosa, Harvey Cutler, Shannon van Zandt

ABSTRACT: Community resilience is the ability of a community to plan for, withstand, and recover from a natural hazard such as an earthquake or flood. Advancing community (or urban) resilience requires: (1) an understanding of how the physical