Measuring Community Disaster Resilience in the Latvian Context: an Apply Case using a Composite Indicator Approach
Energy Procedia 2017
Maksims Feofilovs, Francesco Romagnoli

Despite a growing and considerable interest and implementation of disaster resilience framework methods in research, policy programs and engineering design yet metrics and standards for a quantitative measuring of resilience are still an open issue. Recent literatures on hazard and disaster show that resilience concept represents a guideline toward a valuable hazard risk management and mitigation. As well for the Latvian context this represents a beneficial approach for the implementation of policy strategies based on (semi)quantitative framework aiming to enhance resilience within communities in order to properly and most efficient spend a limited availability of funds. In fact man-made and natural disasters are usually preceded by periods where community develop toward increasing risk states until a loss occurred due to a specific disaster event. In regard to this aspect this study, principally based on the definition of the Community Disaster Resilience Framework (CDRF) developed by Mayunga, is aiming to evaluate the level of community resilience to disaster at the Latvian national level for a specific set of social, economic, human, physical, and environmental indicators. The method implements the concept of a composite-based multi-criteria analysis aiming to measure baseline quantitative characteristics of the communities under investigation to potentially further enhance resilience within specific actions plans and/or policy mechanisms. The results are applied to the Latvian context and provide a tool to assess the variation in resilience in places giving a ranking from the most resilient region to the less one.


Atslēgas vārdi
community disaster resilience; composite indicator; multi-criteria; indicator; building resilience
DOI
10.1016/j.egypro.2017.04.012
Hipersaite
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876610217321355?via%3Dihub

Feofilovs, M., Romagnoli, F. Measuring Community Disaster Resilience in the Latvian Context: an Apply Case using a Composite Indicator Approach. No: Energy Procedia, Latvija, Riga, 12.-14. oktobris, 2016. Germany: Elsevier, 2017, 43.-50.lpp. ISSN 1876-6102. Pieejams: doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2017.04.012

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English (en)
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