Topic: Disaster Resilience and Community Safety

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Assessment Task:

Details of task:
There is only ONE topic for this assignment. However, the topic is in three parts.

Part 1:
Review the Characteristics of a Disaster Resilient Community, using the Australian National Strategy for Disaster Resilience and the key references bellow then Select and justify what you feel are the 6 key characteristics of a Disaster Resilient Community

Characteristics of a disaster resilience community (A work in progress)
? Twigg, 2009
http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1346086/1/1346086.pdf

? Thornley et al Building community resilience: learning from the Canterbury earthquakes (NZ) (2014)
http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2xk6Q4ZE9G8MRpS9TD4P/full

? RAND model – Building blocks for a resilience city
Building Community Resilience to Disasters (2011) http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/technical_reports/2011/RAND_TR915.pdf

? Rockefeller model – ‘100 Resilient Cities Project’
http://www.100resilientcities.org/resilience

o Constant Learning
o Rapid Rebound
o Limited or “Safe” Failure
o Flexibility
o Spare Capacity

Framework report (2013)
http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/uploads/files/0bb537c0-d872-467f-9470-b20f57c32488.pdf

Measuring resilience – are the tools there?
? Torrence Institute (SA)
Developing tools to measure resilience
o How connected
o Level of risk and vulnerability
oSupport for preparedness, response, recovery
oEM resources available
http://www.torrensresilience.org/community-resilience-tookit

Cutter S at al, Disaster Resilience Indicators for Benchmarking Baseline Conditions
http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jhsem.2010.7.1/jhsem.2010.7.1.1732/jhsem.2010.7.1.1732.xml

“PEOPLES” Model (Buffalo, USA)
DEVELOPING THE ‘PEOPLES’ RESILIENCE FRAMEWORK FOR DEFINING ANDMEASURING DISASTER RESILIENCE AT THE COMMUNITY SCALE
POPULATION AND DEMOGRAPHICS
ENVIRONMENTAL/ECOSYSTEM
ORGANIZED GOVERNMENTAL SERVICES
PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
LIFESTYLE AND COMMUNITY COMPETENCE
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
SOCIAL-CULTURAL CAPITAL
http://www.csee.buffalo.edu/~bruneau/9NCEE-10CCEE%20Renschler%20et%20al.PDF

Part 2:
Compare and contrast the 3 models for measuring disaster resilience in a community i.e. Torrens Institute Model, Cutter’s Model and the ‘PEOPLES’ Model. Identify:
a. The strengths and weaknesses of each of the 3 models;
b. Which model best reflects the 6 key characteristics of a Disaster Resilient Community that you identified in Part 1 and then use this chosen model in Part 3.

Part 3:
Using the Model you chose in Part 2, suggest how you would implement that model to measure disaster resilience in Saudi Arabia community.

Word limit: 3,000 words
Presentation requirements: 3,000 words in text format with headings. Analytical in style.

References’ may help you:
1-National Strategy for Disaster Resilience Community Engagement Framework
https://www.em.gov.au/Publications/Australianemergencymanualseries/Pages/NationalStrategyforDisasterResilienceCommunityEngagementFramework.aspx

2- http://www.unisdr.org/we/coordinate/hfa

3- Emerald Community House – Centre of Resilience

Centre Of Resilience (COR)

4- Alpine Shire – Community resilience Plan
http://www.alpineshire.vic.gov.au/files/Being_prepard/2014COMMUNITY_RESILIENCE_PLAN_2012-2015.pdf

5- Levine, S, The relevance of ‘resilience?’ (2012)
http://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/7818.pdf

6- The RRC Evaluation Tool Basket
http://www.resilienceproject.org/evaluation/toolbasket

7- FEMA (USA) Community Engagement
http://www.fema.gov/whole-community

8- Community Resilience System Initiative (CRSI) – a Roadmap to Increased Community Resilience
Steering Committee Final Report — August 2011
http://www.labrr.org/assets/docs/94.pdf

9- Emergency Management Reform (Victoria)
“Green Paper” – Towards a more resilient and safer Victoria (2011)
http://www.crcsi.com.au/getattachment/942e3d2d-7fd9-4a9f-a8bd-fa5f80e8f4d5/Green-Paper–Towards-a-more-disaster-resilient-and.aspx

“White Paper”
http://www.dpc.vic.gov.au/index.php/news-publications/victorian-emergency-management-reform-white-paper

10- Emergency Management Victoria (EMV)
o Will it build ‘resilience’”?
o What is meant by “Shared responsibility”?
http://www.emv.vic.gov.au/

11- HFA Progress Report, Saudi Arabia
http://www.unisdr.org/partners/countries/sau

12- Saudi Arabia

Guidelines on Disaster Recovery Planning for the ICT Industry. This article relates to ‘recovery’ but includes a ‘disaster resilience’ perspective.
http://www.citc.gov.sa/English/RulesandSystems/RegulatoryDocuments/OtherRegulatoryDocuments/Documents/PL-PM-014-E-Guidelines%20on%20Disaster%20Recovery%20Planning%20for%20the%20ICT%20Industry.pdf

13- The Council of Australian Government’s(COAG) National Strategy for Disaster Resilience – Building our nation’s resilience to disasters (NSDR) released in 2011 has driven developments across Australia since that time.
https://www.coag.gov.au/sites/default/files/national_strategy_disaster_resilience.pdf

The 2013 article by David Alexander provides a nice historical overview and some of the key issues in the evolution of ‘disaster resilience’ and is available at http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/13/2707/2013/nhess-13-2707-2013.pdf