This guide provides the necessary knowledge of recovery frameworks, recovery planning and decision-support tools to enable municipal-elected officials, public servants and key stakeholders in the drafting of the PDR Contingency Plan.
2. • Numerous Alberta disasters over the century. Since 2011,
three major Alberta natural disasters:
• “Tyranny of the moment” results in reactive approach and
poses challenges to effective recovery efforts
• Proactive, holistic pre-disaster planning is required to support
full recovery
INTRODUCTION
3. To introduce and define recovery frameworks, recovery
planning, and decision-support tools to enable
municipal elected officials & public servants in
drafting a community-specific, all-hazards, pre-disaster
recovery contingency plan.
INTENT
9. Priority 1: Understand disaster risk
Priority 2: Strengthen disaster risk governance to manage risk
Priority 3: Invest in disaster risk reduction for resilience
Priority 4: Enhance disaster preparedness for effective response and
“Build Back Better” during recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction
THE FOUR PRIORITIES FOR ACTION
10. FOUR STAGES OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
Canada subscribes to four stages
of emergency management:
1. Prevention & Mitigation
2. Preparedness
3. Response
4. Recovery
11. THREE PHASES OF RECOVERY
On a provincial level, recovery is
further segmented into the recovery
continuum of three phases:
1. Stabilization
2. Intermediate Recovery
3. Long-Term Recovery
12. FOUR ENVIRONMENTS
Disaster impacts on the community are
categorized into four environments:
• Social Environment
• Built Environment
• Economic Environment
• Natural Environment
15. FOUR PILLARS OF RECOVERY
• Four pillars group together key
actions that guide recovery
• Supporting foundation and
upper beam highlight supporting
functions
17. DISASTER COMPLEXITY AND SEVERITY
• Disaster scale and complexity
determines scope of recovery plan
• Type 1, 2, and 3 are severe and
complex disasters
• Complex disasters require systems
thinking approach to address all
interconnected components
18. During the development of the PDR Contingency Plan, the
municipality should develop long-term strategic vision for community:
PRE-DISASTER PLANNING
Municipal Strategic Vision
• Community Resilience
Strategies
• Build Back Better
• Disaster-resilient land-use
policies
• Building codes
• FireSmart
Pre-Disaster Planning Outcomes
• Possible projects & outcomes
across the pillars of recovery
19. POST-DISASTER PLANNING
• Review PDR Contingency Plan
and results of damage
assessments
• Scale and complexity
• Planning session
• Decision points
• Transition to DSRP
• Recovery pillar projects
• Optional recovery campaign plan
21. INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS
1
What is the strategic vision from the Municipal leadership? The community’s
long-term vision (10 – 20 years)?
2
Are the municipality’s disaster-relevant plans and policies valid? Municipal
Strategic Plan, HRVA, & MEMP.
3
According to the risk register or HRVA risk matrix, what are the
municipality’s agreed-upon risks & vulnerabilities?
4
What are the municipality’s critical infrastructure (CI)? Sufficient detail to
complete the Critical Asset Management Plan (CAMP) critical inventory list.
5
What are the opportunities for community resilience strategies, including
land-use policies, building codes, and BBB?
6
What are the available GIS capabilities to support pre-disaster planning and
post-disaster management? Internal or third party?
22. IR #1 – MUNICIPAL STRATEGIC GUIDANCE
• IR #1. What is the strategic guidance from
the Municipal leadership? 10-20 year
vision/look ahead?
• Review. 2015-2017 Municipal Strategic
Plan; 2013 Town Plan; other guidance?
• Advice & Opinions.
Method: Plenary Discussion
LinkLink
Use Internet; Handouts
23. IR #2 – MUNICIPAL PLANS VALIDITY
• IR #2. Are the municipality’s
disaster-relevant plans and policies
valid?
• Review. 2015-2017 Municipal
Strategic Plan; 2015 HRVA; 2015
MEMP
• Advice & Opinions.
Method: Plenary Discussion Use Internet; Handouts
Link Link Link
24. IR #3 – MUNICIPAL RISKS & VULNERABILITIES
• IR #3. According to the risk register
or HRVA risk matrix, what are the
municipality’s risks & vulnerabilities?
• Review. 2015 HRVA; HRVA Info
Sheet
• Advice & Opinions.
Method: Plenary Discussion
Use Internet;
Handouts
Link Link
25. IR #4 – CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
• IR #4. What are the municipality’s
critical infrastructure (CI)? Sufficient
detail to complete CAMP inventory?
• Introduce. CI examples
• Review. Comprehensive Asset
Inventory
• Advice & Opinions.
Method: Plenary Discussion & Poll Use Handouts
Link
Link
26. IR #5 – COMMUNITY RESILIENCE OPPORTUNITI
• IR #5. What are the opportunities for
community resilience strategies
(zoning & land-use policies, building
codes, FireSmart, incentives, BBB)
• Consider. 2015-2017 Municipal
Strategic Plan; HRVA Info Sheet;
learnings from ToHR, RMWB, SLake
• Advice & Opinions.
Method: Plenary Discussion Use Links; Handouts
Link Link
27. IR #6 – AVAILABLE GIS CAPABILITIES
• IR #7. What are the available GIS
capabilities to support pre-disaster
planning and post-disaster
management? Internal or third
party?
• Introduce. Support to planning,
situational & data awareness
• Advice & Opinions.
Method: Plenary Discussion
28. SUMMARY
• Prior to the writing the PDR Contingency Plan, it is important
for the municipality to frame all aspects of disaster recovery
• Seek advice and considerations of municipal stakeholders to
inform the development of the community’s PDR Contingency
Plan
• Further consultation, feedback, and refinement as required
Alberta has experienced numerous disasters over the last century, ranging from wildfires, overland flooding, tornadoes, rock slides and more. Since 2011, there have been three significant provincial disasters: the 2011 Slave Lake wildfire, the 2013 Southern Alberta Floods, and the 2016 Horse River Wildfire. These disasters have demonstrated the need for pre-disaster recovery planning.
Intent. The intent of this municipal recovery guide is to introduce and define recovery frameworks, recovery planning, and decision-support tools to enable municipal elected officials, public servants, and key stakeholders in the drafting of a community-specific, all-hazards, pre-disaster recovery contingency plan.
Desired Outcomes. The following are the desired outcomes for Guide #1:
Build awareness of best practices that support community recovery and increased resilience
Explain the purpose and value of an all hazards pre-disaster recovery contingency plan
Produce a common understanding of the elements of a disaster recovery framework
Communicate the decision points and factors for consideration that impact community-level recovery
Overview – Guide #1 – The Recovery Plan
Information Requirements
Participants’ Advice/Opinions
Summary
Prevention and Mitigation.
Preparedness.
Response.
Recovery.
From a provincial perspective, recovery is further segmented into the recovery continuum of three phases, with FEMA’s Recovery Continuum depicted below helping to illustrate the sequencing of these phases:
Stabilization.
Intermediate Recovery.
Long-Term Recovery.
When developing a pre-disaster recovery plan, one of the key planning considerations will be the potential consequences or impact of a disaster on the community. These disaster impacts can be can be categorized into four environments: the social environment, the built environment, the economic environment, and the natural environment.
The Disaster Recovery Framework includes the following components:
Recovery Principles
All-Hazards Approach
All-Hazards Risk Assessment
Asset Management Plan
Disaster Recovery Planning
Recovery Pillars
CSE
Recovery Project Management
And, Governance
This figure depicts the Pillars of Recovery, represented as: Social, Natural, Economy, and Built. They represent logical themes for the grouping of key actions to guide the community’s recovery. The supporting foundation and upper beam highlight necessary supporting functions to ensure an effective recovery and an increase to community resilience.
Type 1, 2 and 3 incidents are greater in severity and typically more complex in nature. A complex disaster needs to be distinguished from a routine disaster, as the former requires the application of a systems thinking approach to plan and lead the recovery. Systems thinking is “a style of thinking that attends as much to the connections between things as to the things themselves, and to the connections between things and their wider context, and looks at things and their connections from more than one perspective” (Armson).
Pre-Disaster Planning. The intent of pre-disaster recovery planning is to develop the municipal PDR Contingency Plan to a level of scalability and adaptability that it can be quickly adjusted to suit any disaster. The ability for a municipality to plan ahead, without the pressures of an actual disaster, is highly beneficial. Prior to conducting pre-disaster planning, a municipality should possess its own long-term vision of what the community wants to look like in the future. Through the course of these pre-disaster discussions, the community should identify opportunities or outcomes to increase community resilience. Thus,
During pre-disaster planning, opportunities to build back better are also explored.
Post-Disaster Planning. Upon declaration of a disaster and the activation of a disaster, the community will look for cogent planning from which to recover. The faster that a comprehensive hazard specific recovery plan can be released to the community, the greater effect it will produce - most notably for those who are vulnerable and/or have been gravely affected.
In addition to providing an overview of the learnings from this guide, the intent is to extract the community representative’s advice and opinions that supports the developing of the community specific, pre-disaster recovery plan. This session is designed to draw advice or opinions for the following information requirements:
What is the strategic vision from the Municipal leadership? The community’s long-term vision (10 – 20 years)? What does the community want to look like in the future?
Are the various extant municipal guidance to pre-disaster recovery plan development valid? Municipal Strategic Plan, HRVA, & MEMP.
Post-Disaster Planning. Upon declaration of a disaster and the activation of a disaster, the community will look for cogent planning from which to recover. The faster that a comprehensive hazard specific recovery plan can be released to the community, the greater effect it will produce - most notably for those who are vulnerable and/or have been gravely affected.
