Selecting Indicators for Assessing Community Sustainable Resilience

Abstract

Communities are complex systems subject to a variety of hazards that can result in significant disruption to critical functions. Community resilience assessment is rapidly gaining popularity as a means to help communities better prepare for, respond to, and recover from disruption. Sustainable resilience, a recently developed concept, requires communities to assess system‐wide capability to maintain desired performance levels while simultaneously evaluating impacts to resilience due to changes in hazards and vulnerability over extended periods of time. To enable assessment of community sustainable resilience, we review current literature, consolidate available indicators and metrics, and develop a classification scheme and organizational structure to aid in identification, selection, and application of indicators within a dynamic assessment framework. A nonduplicative set of community sustainable resilience indicators and metrics is provided that can be tailored to a community's needs, thereby enhancing the ability to operationalize the assessment process.

A Review of Temporary Housing Management Modeling: Trends in Design Strategies, Optimization Models, and Decision-Making Methods

“…Researchers agree that ecological, social, and economic considerations make up three of the main categories in community resilience [90,91]. Existing temporary housing models consider socio-economic factors, which partially address community resilience.…”

“…Existing temporary housing models consider socio-economic factors, which partially address community resilience. However, emergency planning, which includes temporary housing planning, must account for specific social indicators such as regional connectivity, public engagement and trust, inclusion, and awareness [91].…”

“…In addition, the optimized balancing of supply and demand of temporary housing is important for maximized resilience, especially, considering overages can be used for future events and shortages can lead to extended sheltering with mental health implications [91,93,94]. An allocation and inventory management model is required to hedge against demand uncertainty and reduce adverse social consequences.…”

Organizational resilience. Cost optimization approaches

“…Companies that are active users of natural resources can use approaches to assess so-called "sustainable resilience" [16].…”

Quantifying Community Resilience Using Hierarchical Bayesian Kernel Methods: A Case Study on Recovery from Power Outages

“…() develop a qualitative approach to assess community recovery from earthquakes considering four dimensions (population, economic, building, and infrastructure) by extending the concepts of the resilience triangle; however, the method presented in their work is qualitative. Gillespie‐Marthaler, Nelson, Baroud, and Abkowitz () provide a comprehensive review of indicators and metrics with a classification scheme enabling the identification and selection of metrics for research and implementation. Although the majority of research and practice have implemented qualitative metrics, the use of quantitative metrics, although challenging, provides a number of advantages.…”