Community Resilience & Capacity Building Flashcards

What is the primary goal of community resilience in hazard mitigation?

Answer: To enable communities to absorb, adapt to, and recover from disasters with minimal disruption

Community resilience focuses on a community's ability to absorb shocks, adapt, and recover quickly from adverse events while maintaining essential functions.

FEMA's 'whole community' approach to hazard mitigation emphasizes:

Answer: Engaging all segments of society, including individuals, businesses, and NGOs, in mitigation efforts

The whole community approach recognizes that effective mitigation requires engaging all community members—individuals, businesses, nonprofits, and government—as active partners.

Which FEMA program awards premium discounts to flood insurance policyholders in communities that implement floodplain management beyond minimum NFIP standards?

Answer: Community Rating System (CRS)

The Community Rating System (CRS) rewards communities that exceed NFIP minimum requirements with discounts on flood insurance premiums for policyholders.

Social capital in disaster resilience primarily refers to:

Answer: Networks of relationships, trust, and norms that enable communities to act collectively

Social capital encompasses the bonds, bridges, and linkages between people and organizations that enable coordinated community action before, during, and after disasters.

A Local Mitigation Strategy (LMS) is best described as:

Answer: A community-level plan identifying risks and mitigation actions to reduce disaster vulnerability

An LMS is a locally developed, multi-jurisdictional plan that identifies hazard risks and prioritizes mitigation actions to reduce vulnerability and build community resilience.

Which of the following best supports long-term community resilience capacity building?

Answer: Training and empowering community members as local hazard mitigation ambassadors

Building local human capital through training and empowerment creates sustained capacity that persists across multiple hazard events and administrations.

Vulnerable populations in community resilience planning most commonly include:

Answer: Individuals with access and functional needs, low-income households, elderly, and non-English speakers

Resilience planning must address populations with access and functional needs, socioeconomic disadvantages, language barriers, and age-related vulnerabilities who face disproportionate disaster impacts.