Josh Bruce, AICP
Interim Director
Oregon Partnership for Disaster Resilience
Community Service Center, University of Oregon
Resilience Planning OverviewSeaside, Oregon
May 13, 2013
Resilience Pilot Project Local Work Group Meeting
Funding and support from:
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)
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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.
Characteristics of Resilient Systems
• Flexibility/Diversity
• Redundancy/Modularity
• Safe failure
• Networked systems– Vertical– Horizontal
Resilience Pyramid – EM Focus
RESILIENCE
Recovery Plan
Short-term Long-term
Continuity Plan
Continuity of Operations Business Resumption
Emergency Operations Plan
Immediate Response Sustained Operations
Mitigation Plan
Post-Disaster Pre-Disaster
Five-Year Strategic & Business Plan
Enterprise-wide vision for Emergency Management
Resilience of What?
• Emergency Services (evacuation, response, recovery)
• Citizens, property and infrastructure
• Energy and transportation systems
• Food and water systems
• Social systems
• Local Economy
• Natural systems
Photo Credit” Horning Geosciences; Source: Oregon Resilience Plan
Resilience to What?
• Climate change (sea level rise, storm events, etc.)
• Disasters (earthquake, tsunami, flood, wildfire)
• Economic challenges/downturns
• Surprises & ‘nonlinearities’
• Uncertainties
Plan Frameworks and Guidelines
• 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
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