Inclusion

These Guide Briefs supplement the NIST's Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems (NIST SP1190, vols. 1 & 2). Each of the guide briefs states which particular sections of the Guide it is applicable to.

Guide Brief 1 -

Resilience means different things to different people but generally alludes to the ability of people or systems to bounce back from shocks. However, a focus on justice is often lacking in resilience building actions. This can result in unintended consequences such as improved building codes raising housing prices and pushing people to more flood-prone areas of a city.

Resilience building has become a growing policy agenda, particularly for urban risk management. While much of the resilience agenda has been shaped by policies and discourses from the global North, its applicability for cities of the global South

The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2017 uses maps, charts and analysis to illustrate, trends, challenges and measurement issues related to each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Atlas primarily draws on World Development

Due to urbanisation and climate migration, many newcomers to large earthquake-prone Asian cities may end up living in crowded slums or rapidly built skyscrapers. There are serious concerns about the ability of many buildings to stand up to even a moderate earthquake. Cities need to ensure that buildings are reinforced with rebar and building codes need to be enforced.

A nightmare scenario for any community is to be taken by surprise in the middle of the night by a sudden disaster such as the mudslide that swept away hundreds of lives earlier this month in the Amazonian town of Mocoa in Putamayo, Colombia.

A new clinical report can help health care providers and hospitals better prepare for disasters that could impact neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). The report reviews disasters that have affected NICUs in the U.S. and examines how organizing concepts of mass critical care in pediatrics can be applied to the NICU.

This IOM infosheet explores the links between climate change, human trafficking and smuggling in the Asia-Pacific region. To address these challenges, the infosheet provides an overview of best practices from existing projects in the region. The report