Transition from Response to Recovery: A Knowledge Commons to Support Decision Making following the 12 January 2010 Haiti Earthquake

Comfort, Louise K.; McAdoo, Brian G.; Sweeney, Patricia M.; Stebbins, Sam; Siciliano, Michael D.; Huggins, Leonard J.; Serrant, Ted Donaldson; Scheinert, Steve; Augenstein, Jared; Krenitsky, Nicole

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“…Information‐gathering in a fluid context is captured by the concept of the knowledge commons. In a paper examining the aftermath of and recovery from the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Comfort et al (2011) define the knowledge commons as a comprehensive, interactive, emergent system to support decision‐making and organizational learning by communities in complex, changing environments. Comfort and Okada (2013: 66) conclude that an extreme event “requires an information infrastructure to facilitate the search for, and exchange of, timely, valid information.” A knowledge‐commons provides a powerful way of organizing information (and even a guiding principle) to aid management of extreme events.…”

Section: Covid‐19: Governance Strategies For Managing Uncertain Risksmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond COVID‐19: Five commentaries on reimagining governance for future crises and resilience

Brousselle¹,

Brunet‐Jailly²,

Kennedy³

et al. 2020

Can Public Adm

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Several Canadian and international scholars offer commentaries on the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for governments and public service institutions, and fruitful directions for public administration research and practice. This second suite of commentaries considers the challenges confronting governments as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and in the decades to come with an increasingly broad lens: the need to understand and rethink the architecture of the state given recent and future challenges awaiting governments; the need to rethink government-civil society relations and policies to deliver services for increasingly diverse citizens and communities; the need for new repertoires and sensibilities on the part of governments for recognizing, anticipating, and engaging on governance risks despite imperfect expert knowledge and public skepticism; how the COVID-19 crisis has caused us to reconceive international and sub-national borders where new "borders" are being drawn; and the need to anticipate a steady stream of crises similar to the COVID-19 pandemic arising from climate change and related challenges, and develop new national and international governance strategies for fostering population and community resilience. Sommaire : Plusieurs universitaires canadiens et internationaux ont offert des suggestions sur les implications de la pandémie du COVID-19 pour les gouvernements et les institutions de la fonction publique, ainsi que des orientations futures pour la recherche et la pratique en administration publique. Cette deuxième série de commentaires examine les défis que devront affronter les gouvernements en raison de la pandémie de COVID-19 et dans les décennies à venir, dans une optique large. Cette série souligne le besoin de comprendre et de repenser l'architecture de l'État, de revoir les relations entre le gouvernement et la société civile pour fournir des services à des citoyens et des communautés de plus en plus divers, d'élaborer de nouvelles façons d'identifier et d'anticiper les risques, et de s'engager malgré

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Section: Covid‐19: Governance Strategies For Managing Uncertain Risksmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond COVID‐19: Five commentaries on reimagining governance for future crises and resilience

Brousselle¹,

Brunet‐Jailly²,

Kennedy³

et al. 2020

Can Public Adm

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“…Reed et al 2010), the 2010 Haiti earthquake (e.g. Comfort et al 2011), and volcanic activity and drought conditions in Mexico (e.g. Gavilanes-Ruiz et al 2009; Romero Lankao 2010).…”

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Infrastructure hazard resilience trends: an analysis of 25 years of research

2017

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Hazard research has made significant strides over the last several decades, answering critical questions surrounding vulnerability and recovery. Recently, resilience has come to the forefront of scholarly debates and practitioner strategies, yet there remain challenges implementing resilience in practice, the result of a complex web of research that spreads across numerous fields of study. As a result, there is a need to analyze and reflect on the current state of resilience literature. We reviewed 241 journal articles from the Web of Science and Engineering Village databases from 1990 to 2015 to analyze research trends in geographic location of studies, methods employed, units of analysis, and resilience dimensions studied, as well as correlations between each of these categories. The majority of the studies analyzed were conducted in North America, used quantitative methods, focused on infrastructure and community units of analysis, and studied governance, infrastructure and economic dimensions of resilience. This analysis points to the need to: (1) conduct studies in developing country contexts and compare these contexts with developed nations; (2) employ mixed-methods for additional depth to quantitative studies; (3) connect units of analysis, such as infrastructure and community; and (4) expand on the measurement and study of environmental and social dimensions of resilience.

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“…Studies and regional events focused on the resilience of infrastructure are summarized as follows: most studies in North America are concentrated in the United States and several studies have also been conducted in the Caribbean or Central American countries (Silva et al, 2014;Taramelli et al, 2015). Certain studies have examined several hurricanes and earthquakes in the United States (Reed et al, 2010) such as the Haiti earthquake in 2010 (Comfort et al, 2011) as well as the volcanic activity and drought in Mexico (Gavilanes-Ruiz et al, 2009;Romero, 2010). Studies in Europe (Ward and Paulus, 2013;Baubion, 2015) have usually focused on flood control in different countries.…”

Section: Community Resilience and Infrastructure Constructionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Attributes, challenges and future directions of community resilience

Meng

Fang

2018

Front. Eng

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With the continuous development of human society, the damage to the natural environment is becoming increasingly large, causing crisis events to occur frequently. In recent years, the study of community resilience is becoming popular among scholars because of its perspective on disaster prevention and mitigation. In this study, we apply database retrieval to untangle community resilience-related papers from multiple directions. We analyze the connotation, attribute, and composition of community, resilience, and community resilience comprehensively by summarizing important issues and research progress in community resilience. Challenges and shortcomings faced by community resilience development are also determined. Moreover, we put forward the research directions that future research can focus on. Through literature review, current research on community resilience focuses on the following aspects: "infrastructure construction," "crowd in the community," "economic resilience," "social capital," and "measurement of community resilience." Such research is not yet systematic and relatively decentralized. The attention to collective resilience in the community is relatively weak, which makes achieving the goal of "people-oriented and systematic control" difficult. Therefore, this study states that the development of future community resilience should stand from the perspective of "system of system" and build on knowledge and tools of various relevant domains. Therefore, public needs and participation are highlighted as breakthrough points. The research should integrate infrastructure and economic resilience, social resource allocation, network connection, and other aspects to build a holistic and functional resilient community.

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Transition from Response to Recovery: A Knowledge Commons to Support Decision Making following the 12 January 2010 Haiti Earthquake

Cited by 9 publications

References 7 publications

Beyond COVID‐19: Five commentaries on reimagining governance for future crises and resilience

Beyond COVID‐19: Five commentaries on reimagining governance for future crises and resilience

Infrastructure hazard resilience trends: an analysis of 25 years of research

Attributes, challenges and future directions of community resilience

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