Community Resilience & Capacity Building Flashcards

Adaptive capacity in hazard mitigation refers to:

Answer: A community's ability to adjust to changing hazard conditions and improve mitigation strategies over time

Adaptive capacity is a community's ability to learn from experience, anticipate future changes, and adjust practices to improve resilience against evolving hazard threats.

A Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) is primarily used to:

Answer: Establish community-specific capability targets based on identified threats and desired outcomes

THIRA is a four-step risk assessment process that helps communities understand their threats and hazards and set capability targets needed to achieve desired outcomes.

Which term describes a community's ability to recover quickly and return to its pre-disaster state?

Answer: Bounce-back resilience

Bounce-back resilience specifically refers to the ability to return to original conditions after a disruption, as distinguished from adaptive or transformative resilience.

Community engagement in hazard mitigation planning is critical primarily because:

Answer: Local knowledge and priorities improve plan relevance, buy-in, and implementation success

Authentic community engagement captures local hazard knowledge, builds ownership of mitigation priorities, and increases the likelihood that identified actions will actually be implemented.

The concept of 'redundancy' in community resilience planning means:

Answer: Building backup systems and alternative pathways so critical functions can continue if one component fails

Redundancy ensures that if one system, route, or facility fails during a disaster, backup alternatives can maintain critical community functions without interruption.

Community-based organizations (CBOs) contribute to disaster resilience primarily by:

Answer: Providing trusted relationships and local networks that can mobilize resources quickly during disasters

CBOs leverage existing trust and social networks within communities to rapidly mobilize volunteers, distribute information, and connect vulnerable residents to resources during disasters.

Which outcome best indicates a successful community resilience capacity building program?

Answer: Reduced dependence on outside assistance and faster recovery times after disasters

Successful resilience capacity building is measured by communities' ability to handle disasters with greater self-sufficiency and recover more quickly with less reliance on external aid.