Posted: May 21st, 2015

Topic: Disaster resilience2

The topic for this Major assignment has a focus on the measurement of disaster resilience in a community.

 

Details of task:

The topic is in three parts.

 

Part 1:

Review the Characteristics of a Disaster Resilient Community, using the Australian National Strategy for Disaster Resilience and the key references in Sector B. Select and justify what you feel are the 6 key characteristics of a Disaster Resilient Community.

 

Part 2:

Compare and contrast 3 of the models for measuring disaster resilience in a community which were outlined in Sector Cie Torrens Institute Model, cutter’s Model and the ‘PEOPLES’ Model. Identify:

 

1. The strengths and weaknesses of each of the 3 models chosen;
2. Which model best reflects the 6 key characteristics of a Disaster Resilient Community that you identified in Part 1 and then use this chosen model in Part 3.

 

Part 3:

Using the Model you chose in Part 2, suggest how you would implement that model to measure disaster resilience in EITHER:

 

1. The communities affected by the Victorian Floods of 2010/11 (Comrie report)

 

http://www.floodsreview.vic.gov.au/images/stories/documents/review_20101011_flood_warnings_and_response.pdf

 

OR

 

1. Your own community in your respective country. (Saudi Arabia).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SECTOR B

 

 

Characteristics of a disaster resilience community (A work in progress)

• Twigg, 2009

http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1346086/1/1346086.pdf

 

• Thornley et al Building community resilience: learning from the Canterbury earthquakes (NZ) (2014)

http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2xk6Q4ZE9G8MRpS9TD4P/full

 

• RAND model – Building blocks for a resilience city

Building Community Resilience to Disasters (2011) http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/technical_reports/2011/RAND_TR915.pdf

 

• Rockefeller model – ‘100 Resilient Cities Project’

http://www.100resilientcities.org/resilience

 

• Constant Learning
• Rapid Rebound
• Limited or “Safe” Failure
• Flexibility
• Spare Capacity

 

Framework report (2013)

http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/uploads/files/0bb537c0-d872-467f-9470-b20f57c32488.pdf

 

 

 

 

Sector C

 

Measuring resilience – are the tools there?

• Torrence Institute (SA)

Developing tools to measure resilience

• How connected
• Level of risk and vulnerability
• Support for preparedness, response, recovery
• EM resources available

org/community-resilience-tookit“>http://www.torrensresilience.org/community-resilience-tookit

• Cutter S at al, Disaster Resilience Indicators for Benchmarking Baseline Conditions

http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jhsem.2010.7.1/jhsem.2010.7.1.1732/jhsem.2010.7.1.1732.xml

• “PEOPLES” Model (Buffalo, USA)

DEVELOPING THE ‘PEOPLES’ RESILIENCE FRAMEWORK FOR DEFINING ANDMEASURINGDISASTER RESILIENCE AT THE COMMUNITY SCALE

POPULATION AND DEMOGRAPHICS

ENVIRONMENTAL/ECOSYSTEM

ORGANIZED GOVERNMENTAL SERVICES

PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

LIFESTYLE AND COMMUNITY COMPETENCE

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

SOCIAL-CULTURAL CAPITAL

http://www.csee.buffalo.edu/~bruneau/9NCEE-10CCEE%20Renschler%20et%20al.PDF

• DISASTER RESILIENCE MEASUREMENTS: STOCKTAKING OF ONGOING EFFORTS IN DEVELOPING SYSTEMS FOR MEASURING RESILIENCE. UNDP February 2014

net/files/37916_disasterresiliencemeasurementsundpt.pdf”>http://www.preventionweb.net/files/37916_disasterresiliencemeasurementsundpt.pdf

• Measuring Community Resilience and Recovery: A Content Analysis of

Indicators. Elizabeth Jordan1 and Amy Javernick-Will2012

https://mcedc.colorado.edu/sites/default/files/Measuring%20Community%20Resilience%20and%20Recovery_%20A%20Content%20Analysis%20of%20Indicators.pdf

• Health Indicators of disaster risk management in the Context of the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development Initial findings from a WHO Expert Consultation: 17-18 May 2012

http://www.who.int/hia/green_economy/indicators_disasters1.pdf

• India

India city profile: climate and disaster resilience

http://www.preventionweb.net/english/professional/publications/v.php?id=15263

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This slides in this link for Task 2 part 1in slide number 27 there are

12 key characteristicschoose6 of them as mention in the question which are as follow :

 

Basic human needs	People
Livelihoods & employment Health and emergency services Mobility & communications
	Place
Critical services Protective infrastructure Finance & founds
	Organization
Social stability & security Identity & mutual support Leadership & management
	Knowledge
Stakeholder empowerment Development planning

 

 

 

 

 

net/RockefellerFound/how-to-build-a-resilient-city-the-city-resilience-framework“>http://www.slideshare.net/RockefellerFound/how-to-build-a-resilient-city-the-city-resilience-framework