Resilience Assessment and Resilience-based Risk Mitigation for Community Building Portfolios

The resilience of a community is determined by its ability to withstand and recover from disruptions due to natural or manmade hazards. While a consensus has developed in disaster-related research in recent years that community infrastructure should be designed, managed and regulated to achieve community-specific resilience goals, there is currently no integrated source of quantitative tools and measurement technologies to support risk...