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Community resilience
Overview
Community resilience is the ability to prepare for anticipated hazards, adapt to changing conditions, and withstand and recover rapidly from disruptions. Activities, such as disaster preparedness—which includes prevention, protection, mitigation, response and recovery—are key steps to resilience.
NIST manages a multi-faceted program, assisting communities and stakeholders on issues related to buildings and the interdependencies of physical infrastructure systems. The Community Resilience Program, part of NIST's broader disaster resilience work, complements efforts by others in the public and private sectors. NIST focuses on research, community planning and guidance and stakeholder engagement.
Boosting Community Resilience with Actionable Planning Guidance
Christopher Clavin was interviewed by Tom Temin on Federal News Radio to share how the NIST Community Resilience Planning Playbook can help communities plan for resilience and how resilience can be enhanced through codes and standards. >>Listen to the interview here
HOW CAN STATES GET THE MOST BANG FOR THEIR DISASTER BUCK?
Dr. Jennifer Helgeson sat down with Federal News Radio to discuss how the EDGe$ tool can be used to help communities prioritize decisions on hazard mitigation. >>Listen to the interview here
Toward a Resilient Nashua, New Hampshire
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is conducting research in community resilience. Among other locales, NIST has worked closely with Nashua, New Hampshire. Nashua’s leadership in community resilience is an excellent example of the goals described in the newly published National Mitigation Investment Strategy (NMIS). In the NMIS, the federal government seeks to promote and integrate hazard mitigation as an essential component of comprehensive emergency management. NMIS emphasizes the importance of information sharing between emergency managers and community planners, strategy coordination, and better tools to measure risk and communicate it to stakeholders.
News
Natural Disaster Preparations May Aid Businesses’ Pandemic Response
Draft California Fire Code Includes NIST Tool to Evaluate Wildfire Hazard
The Joplin Tornado: A Calamity and a Boon to Resilience, 10 Years On
New Timeline of Deadliest California Wildfire Could Guide Lifesaving Research and Action
The Research
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