The Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning is a NIST-funded Center of Excellence
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Community resilience depends on the performance of the built environment and on supporting social, economic and public institutions which are essential for community response and recovery following a natural hazard event. The resilience goals of a community are shaped by its prior experience with hazards, the vulnerability of its population, economic and financial drivers and resources, and local civil infrastructure regulations and construction practices. These goals are not reflected in current codes, standards and other regulatory documents. A measurement sciencebased approach is required to advance community resilience, an approach that has been thoroughly explored in testbeds, and validated by hindcasts and field studies to support risk-informed decisions to enable communities to achieve their distinct resilience goals. This approach is necessarily interdisciplinary, since it must reflect complex interdependencies among the physical, social and economic systems within a community.
