Josh Bruce, AICP Interim Director Oregon Partnership for Disaster Resilience Community Service Center, University of Oregon [email protected]Resilience Planning Overview Seaside, Oregon May 13, 2013 Resilience Pilot Project Local Work Group Meeting Funding and support from:
Resilience Pilot Project Local Work Group Meeting. Resilience Planning Overview Seaside, Oregon May 13, 2013. Josh Bruce, AICP Interim Director Oregon Partnership for Disaster Resilience Community Service Center, University of Oregon [email protected]. Funding and support from:. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
This document is posted to help you gain knowledge. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think about it! Share it to your friends and learn new things together.
Oregon citizens will not only be protected from life-threatening physical harm, but because of risk reduction measures and pre-disaster planning, communities will recover more quickly and with less continuing vulnerability following a Cascadia subduction zone earthquake and tsunami (OSSPAC Definition)
BikePortland.org
What is “Resilience”?
What is “Resilience”?
• The ability of a local community to respond to, and recover from, an incident or emergency
• The ability to anticipate, absorb, adapt to, and recover from disruptions
• The ability to sustain ecologicalservices, life support systems, biological diversity, and economic vitality.
• The degree to which a community is capable of absorbing disturbances and maintain its functions, reorganize, or renew.
• USAID- How Resilient Is Your Coastal Community? (Recommended)
• NOAA- Adapting to Climate Change: A Planning Guide for State Coastal Managers
• Rural Resilience Guide (Canadian)
What’s in a Resilience Plan?
• Local hazard threat/risk assessment
• Local vulnerability assessment
• Local asset & capacity assessment
• Climate change impact assessment
• Proposed actions and adaptations
Institute for Social and Environmental Transition: www.i-s-e-t.org
Resilience Strategy
Common Resilience Plan Themes
• Action-oriented • Include soft & hard actions
– Policy approaches
– Redundant & diverse infrastructure
• Make critical systems flexible– Focus on safe to fail, instead of failsafe
• Nested institutional networks– Vertical and horizontal alignment
• Have a responsive, organized, & involved community, with a local champion
Resilience Assessment Areas
• Governance• Society and Economy• Coastal Resource Management• Land Use and Structural Design• Risk Knowledge• Warning and Evacuation• Emergency Response• Disaster Recovery• Utilities• Natural and Cultural Systems
Sample Table of Contents
I. Purpose & Executive Summary
II. Community Profile
III. Existing Activities, Plans & Analysis
IV. Resilience Assessment (USAID framework)
V. Recommendations
VI. Action Plan
VII. Monitoring & Implementation
VIII. Conclusion
Discussion
• What themes should we focus on?– Resilience of what/to what?
• What type of plan is this?– Action, strategy, policy?