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Can flood resilience be measured?

Source(s):  International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Practical Action
Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center (Risk Center)
Zurich Insurance Group Limited

This publication highlights a key challenge for any resilience-building efforts: if resilience cannot be empirically verified, how do you empirically measure whether a community is more resilient as a result of your work?

The document presents a framework around which can be build a measurement tool for resilience. The framework is based on four separate properties related to community resilience:

  • robustness (ability to withstand a shock);
  • redudancy (functional diversity);
  • resourcefulness (ability to mobilize when threatened);
  • rapidity (ability to contain losses and recover in a timely manner).



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  • Can flood resilience be measured?
  • Publication date 2015
  • Number of pages 4 p.

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