Commercial Building Recovery Methodology for Use in Community Resilience Modeling

Building a Comprehensive Conceptual Framework for Power Systems Resilience Metrics

Recently, the frequency and severity of natural and man-made disasters (extreme events), which have a high-impact low-frequency (HILF) property, are increased. These disasters can lead to extensive outages, damages, and costs in electric power systems. A power system must be built with “resilience” against disasters, which means its ability to withstand disasters efficiently while ensuring the ...

Community Based Resilience Assessment (CoBRA) Conceptual Framework and Methodology

Modeling Community Resilience for a Post-Epidemic Society

The 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa once again reminded the world of the fatal risks of exposure to deadly disease. Commonly evaluated by the number of fatalities estimated during an outbreak, epidemics also have lasting consequences for survivors in the form of community breakdown. Although agent-based models are frequently used to consider the susceptibility of agents to disease and to pre...

Building Portfolio Fragility Functions to Support Scalable Community Resilience Assessment

Community resilience planning, risk mitigation and recovery optimization must assume a system perspective at the level of the overall community built environment. While engineers can quantify the performance of individual buildings and facilities, such information must be aggregated to reflect the vulnerability of the building portfolio as a whole to support resilience-based decisions at the co...

Building community resilience to violent extremism through genuine partnerships.

What is community resilience in relation to violent extremism, and how can we build it? This article explores strategies to harness community assets that may contribute to preventing youth from embracing violent extremism, drawing from models of community resilience as defined in relation to disaster preparedness. Research suggests that social connection is at the heart of resilient communities...