Download - Building Resilient Urban Communities
Building Resilient Urban Communities
September 11th, 2012
Arriata ChakosUrban Resilience Strategies
Mary ComerioUC Berkeley
Jayant R KalagnanamIBM
Mark BakerEsri
Introduction
• A timely issue?• Examples of little pre planning for current
events. • Greater dialogue on the level of planning and
rebuilding communities for greater resilience. • Impacts of the
emergency are greater as they do not have the resilience plans in place.
Pre Disaster Resilience Initiatives
• Elements of a Resilience Plan :- Heath - Housing - Education - Environment - Economy
- Institutions - Infrastructure• What is our event timeline for planning?• Compressed Planning – relies on resources
available and the needs. • Issues of implementation:
- Political/social issues involved with resilience implementation.
- Logistics- Budget
Post Disaster Planning
- Assessment. - Do we have the right tools to assess the
impacts for rebuilding?- Role of Social media during an event.- What does a city rebuild to replace.
- Observe the past, or build for the new.- Is it ‘smart’ - Is it ‘resilient’
- The cycle of resilience planning?- SF Example from 1989- Preparation for the next event.
Role of Technology
• Operations level response tools and relevance to the planning activities- What is available and what is needed?
• Getting the right picture of the environment - ‘what, where, when’.
• Situational awareness in real time during an event,- Simulation models, spatial-temporal view of
resource availability to provide Information• Aggregate the remote and the local: multi-
modal information from various sources e.g. radar, satellites, sensors…
Summary