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Calhoun: The NPS Institutional ArchiveDSpace RepositoryCenter for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS) Center for Homeland Security and Defense Publications2010-02Resilience: The Fifth Element in Crisis andEmergency ManagementMcCreight, RobertMonterey, California: Naval Postgraduate Schoolhttp://hdl.handle.net/10945/69211This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, UnitedStates Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in theUnited States.Downloaded from NPS Archive: CalhounResilience:  The Fifth Element in Crisis and Emergency ManagementRobert McCreight, Ph.D.George Washington University2010 HDSE S it    ummMcCreight, Ph.D.  HSDE 2010 1A New Perspective  Traditional   ParadigmMitigation Preparedness Response RecoveryResilienceSynergistic, additive, adaptive, transformative, new…..2McCreight, Ph.D.  HSDE 2010Defining Resilience “…resilience as defined here in the United States actually goes beyond mitigation and recovery to include explicit strategies jointly developed by business-government-civic and educational partnerships which create a different metric, newer standards and more rigorous objectives for advancing the field and its ongoing professionalization. Resilience emerges as something additive to the classic four elements and thereby heralds a new set of assumptions, requirements, resources and goals important to crisis and emergency management. Implications for teaching, researching and professional development are significant.    [McCreight]3McCreight, Ph.D.  HSDE 2010Resilience—Conceptual Terrain Requirement‘What must society do to confidently Standard attain the greatest degree of post-disasterrestoration possible and what adaptive,creative and innovative systems must be installed deliberately andYardstick  strategically in advance of a crisis,and in the midst of a crisis toensure and sustain that outcome?Goal4McCreight, Ph.D.  HSDE 2010Resilience—12 elements St t t da e suppor eCross-cuttingRobust  PartnershipInnovativeBottom--UpVertically IntegratedSub-CatastrophicResilience Multidisciplinary FocusSustainable   SynergisticAdaptive capacityProactive  Mitigation5McCreight, Ph.D.  HSDE 2010Future Resilience Indicators  are built to avoid and absorb the onslaught of disasters exhibiting a capacity to weather them with significantly less damage than otherwise would occur  readily mobilize resources to protect people, resources, property, industry, and infrastructure from total destruction in advance of t f il d i ti i ti f di tsys ems a ures an  n an c pa on o  new sas ers allow certain system elements to fail responsibly in ways which do not further harm people resources property industry and   , , , ,  infrastructure complement natural barriers, pathways, and defenses rather than l th hil i i ti l ti d d tirep ace em w e eng neer ng crea ve so u ons an  a ap ve technologies to minimize damagesincorporate sustainable engineering strategies and systems to6McCreight, Ph.D.  HSDE 2010       rebuild responsibly and thwart the worst effects of new disasterResilience Signals More than bouncing back   More than robust recovery or ‘back to normal’M th i b i d b t i t tore an emerg ng ru se  u  n acResilience absorbs the worst onslaught of damageswithstands the most extremely devastating forcesquickly rebounds from complete and utter destructiondefies easy and overcomes simplistic mitigationthwarts and deters annihilationreflects strategic pre-disaster adaptations to enduredemonstrates restoration rooted in partnership7McCreight, Ph.D.  HSDE 2010    Resilience Dimensions FAMILIALSOCIALINFRASTRUCTURALG tPERSONALPSYCHOLOGICALORGANIZATIONALSYSTEMSovernmenCOMMERCIALECONOMIC8McCreight, Ph.D.  HSDE 2010Resilience—The Challenge What strategies and programs can help build resilience in our community?  How can resilience partnerships be promoted?  How will multiple stakeholders become engaged      to promote resilience as the future of hometown emergency management?How can we promote a community’s capacity to anticipate, withstand, and rebound from a disaster with minimal damage and disruption by virtue of the strength of its people, institutions, businesses, infrastructures and social networks?Prepare to prosper VS ‘prepare for disaster’9McCreight, Ph.D.  HSDE 2010     ResilienceQuestions??    Comments??Th kan smccr8@gwu.edu10McCreight, Ph.D.  HSDE 2010

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