PPT-Disasters and Community Resilience:

Urban Lessons from Peripheral Wildfire Communities   Ivan Townshend University of Lethbridge Judith Kulig University of Lethbridge Bill Reimer Concordia University Dana Edge Queens University. brPage 1br Building Cities Resilience to Disasters Protecting Cultural Heritage a nd Adapting to Climate Change Doges Palace St Marks Square Venice Italy 1920 March 2012 brPage 2br b Built Environment Disasters in the Developed World . and Lessons . for . All Countries. Aris Papadopoulos. Retired CEO, Titan America. Past Chair, UNISDR Private Sector Advisory Group. Author, . Resilience – The Ultimate Sustainability. Bonnie Canal . Managing Partner. The Resiliency Institute. It’s Going to Happen. All communities will have some type of disaster. General consensus is natural disasters are increasing in frequency and severity. . Community based approaches – early learning from the Flood Resilience Community Pathfinders. Clare . Twigger. -Ross and Paula Orr. Outline. The Community Flood Resilience Pathfinders. What is community resilience?. Community Resilience work-strand. Antonia Baird. Argyll Voluntary Action. AVA community resilience. Reshaping Care for Older People. 7 Community Resilience Officers. Enabling the shift of services to the community. Environmental Disaster Events and Changes in Economic Diversity . Jason Chun Yu Wong. University of Maryland. Environmental Science and Policy – Environmental Economics. Resilient Coastal Communities and Economies. Arid . Lands -. Improved Resilience. REGAL-IR. Backdrop. The USG spent $1 . b. illion dollars in the Horn of Africa following the drought of 2011 in the form of emergency humanitarian assistance. Resiliency programming is designed to prevent that from happening again.. Margaret Reams, Ph.D.. Louisiana State University. The Starting Point: The Adaptive Cycle. The model of the adaptive cycle was derived from the comparative study of the dynamics of ecosystems.. Meant to be a tool for thought: focuses attention upon processes of destruction and reorganization, which are often neglected in favor of growth and conservation. . Mpact. , University of Maryland . October 22, 2014. Stephen A. Cauffman. Manager, Community Resilience Program. Materials and Structural Systems Division. Engineering Laboratory. What is the Problem?. Introductory Workshop. Training Approach. Goal: Learn resilience assessment methodology by practicing each step. What would you like to get out of this workshop?. Methodology Approach. Background Information: Resilience, Systems Thinking, Climate Change. there any meat . on the bone?. A dive into its origin and possible applications. . Bob Freitag CFM. Resilience. Resilience is the ability to endure or bounce back quickly from adverse . conditions.. To bounce forward. of Livelihoods to Disasters and Crises. Number of deaths by disaster types. 1996 - 2015. From: Poverty & Death: Disaster Mortality, . http://emdat.be/. . Floods/landslides. impacts better controlled: . Faculty Advisor: . Summer Gray, Department of Environmental Studies . Acknowledgements . “Climate Resilience.” . Second Nature. , . secondnature.org. /climate-resilience/.. Seville, . Aleka. , and Nik . Investing in Resilience Forum Portfolio. The Global Resilience Partnership (GRP). GRP is a partnership of public and private organizations joining forces towards a resilient, sustainable and prosperous future for vulnerable people and places. GRP collaboratively designs and advances knowledge, programs, policy and innovations that build resilience for the people that need it the most. We are building from a strong foundation:.