Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7473357 | International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction | 2014 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
There is a pressing need for longitudinal assessments of a community׳s level of disaster resilience in order to identify appropriate strategies for building and enhancing resilience. Despite significant challenges, there are several assessment tools available that organize and emphasize specific resilience themes in multiple ways, at multiple scales. In this study we adapt the Baseline Resilience Indicators for Communities (BRIC) to apply to our case study region and call upon local and district disaster management experts to evaluate the appropriateness of the assessment tool for this case study location. Our findings identify that the absence of an ecological resilience theme has limited the usefulness of the BRIC for the case study region, as has the inability of the BRIC to transition between local to regional scale indicators of resilience.
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Authors
Lila Singh-Peterson, Paul Salmon, Natassia Goode, John Gallina,