Environmental Resilience: Exploring Scientific Concepts for Strengthening Community Resilience to Disasters
Citation:
U.S. EPA. Environmental Resilience: Exploring Scientific Concepts for Strengthening Community Resilience to Disasters. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-15/163, 2015.
Impact/Purpose:
This report summarizes two Community Environmental Resilience Index workshops held at EPA in May and July of 2014. The workshops explored scientific concepts for building an index of indicators of community environmental resilience to natural or human-caused disasters. The index could be used to support disaster decision-making. Key workshop outcomes include: a working definition of environmental resilience and insight into how it relates to EPA's mission and Strategic Goals, a call for an inventory of EPA resiliency tools, a preliminary list of indicators and CERI structure, identification of next steps for index development, and emergence of a network of collaborators. The report can be used to support EPA's work in resilience under PPD-8, PPD-21, and the national response and disaster recovery frameworks. It can feed into interagency efforts on building community resilience.
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