Federal Program-Based Indicators of Community-Level Hazard and Climate Resilience - Kathleen Boyer

1. Federal Program-Based
Indicators of Community-
Level Hazard and Climate
Resilience
FEMA, NOAA and Other Federal Partners (CEQ, DOE, DOI, DOT, EDA, EPA, NIST, NTIA, USDA, USACE)

2. What is Hazard and Climate Resilience?
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E.O. 13653-
Climate and
PPD-8-
Preparednes
s: Ability to
anticipate and
withstand
losses;
recover
quickly from
change and
disruption.
Actions
toward this
capability…

3. About the Project – Purpose and Phase I
 Broad research community trying to identify resources and data to
measure community resilience
 National Academies Resilience Roundtable, other Federal
agencies (NIST, EPA), universities and NGOs (BRIC,
Rockefeller)
 The goal of this project is to identify the Federal contribution to
measuring community resilience
• Feds should contribute to community resilience measurement and –
more specifically – we should do better at making our data available
• Start with some high level messaging about the relationship between
community resilience and what government does
 Measurement data is limited right now, but we can start by
looking at community participate in Fed programs that try
support resilience concepts and actions

4. Milestones to Date, In Process, Next Steps
July-Oct 14 Nov-Dec 14 Jan-Apr 15 Apr-July 15 May-Dec 15-> 2016 ->
Project Start
Literature
review
Framework
Initial indicator
selection
(inherent vs.
adaptive-
actionable)
Multi-Agency
interviews
Multi-Agency
Workshop
Expanded on
potential
indicators
Lots of
potential ideas
but sparse data
Start with Fed
program
participation
as baseline
Obtain Fed
commitments
Proof of
Concept (Map)
Research
Report and
White Paper
MitFLG
Concurrence
(April 30th)
Implement
Phase I
Blueprint
Get data,
visualize data,
write full
narrative,
activate website
Risk MAP-
FIMA
Integration
NAS Meeting
Develop Phase
II: From Options
Paper, look at
expanding
indicators,
thinking about
analysis
options, adding
risk layers,
identifying
outcome
studies and
metrics,
incentive
studies
1st Report
Update:
Annual update
to baseline
participation
metrics, with
risk layers
where available,
and some
analysis of
community-level
meaning of
multiple points
of participation
(what does it
mean)?

5. Federal Program-Based Indicators of
Community Hazard and Climate Resilience
 Categories of Resilience (Drawn from and align with other
frameworks and concepts)
1. Promoting Healthy, Safe and Prosperous
Communities (Social, Org, Cultural)
2. Enhancing and Providing Resilient Lifeline
Facilities and Infrastructure and Housing (Built)
3. Enhancing and Providing Resilient Natural
Resources (Environment)
4. Empowering Communities with Actionable
Climate/Hazard Risk Information
5. Enhancing Community Climate/Hazard Risk
Management
Inherent
Capacity
but still
Actionable
Adaptive
Capacity

6. Matrix of Indicator Relationships to Fed
Agencies

7. About the Project
The community-level resilience assessment “vortex” –where messaging gets more
complicated, hundreds of potential variables
High-Level Messaging About Resilience, Types of Relevant Federally Supported
Actions, Fed Data – A “Slice” of the Overall Resilience Measurement Challenge
By giving the Fed program-based
perspective, can then lead communities
to resilience assessment as a next step
Fed Program
Linked Indicators
and Data
Broader
Resilience
Indicators and
Data
Value of program-based
indicators is that they are
action-based by nature