Community Resilience & Capacity Building Flashcards
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The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015–2030) establishes which primary goal?
Answer: Substantially reducing disaster risk and losses in lives, livelihoods, and health
The Sendai Framework's overarching goal is to substantially reduce disaster risk and losses in lives, livelihoods, health, and assets by 2030 through seven global targets.
How does sound land use planning directly contribute to community resilience?
Answer: It steers development away from high-hazard areas, reducing future disaster exposure
Strategic land use planning prevents new development in flood plains, wildfire interfaces, and other hazard zones, which is the most cost-effective long-term resilience strategy.
Absorptive capacity in disaster resilience refers to:
Answer: The ability to withstand and cope with a hazard event without exceeding thresholds that cause loss of function
Absorptive capacity is a community's ability to endure a hazard impact and maintain or quickly restore essential functions without crossing critical failure thresholds.
Which federal initiative specifically supports community resilience through pre-disaster hazard mitigation investment?
Answer: Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC)
BRIC is FEMA's pre-disaster mitigation grant program that supports states, territories, tribal governments, and local communities in building resilience before disasters occur.
In community resilience frameworks, 'transformative capacity' means:
Answer: The ability to fundamentally change systems and structures to reduce long-term vulnerability
Transformative capacity goes beyond bouncing back or adapting—it involves making fundamental changes to community systems, policies, and practices to achieve a more resilient state.
Which approach to resilience capacity building has been shown most effective for reaching marginalized communities?
Answer: Partnering with trusted community anchors such as faith institutions, schools, and cultural organizations
Trusted community anchors such as houses of worship, schools, and cultural centers have established relationships with marginalized populations that government agencies often cannot access directly.
A community resilience index is used primarily to:
Answer: Measure and track the dimensions of a community's capacity to withstand and recover from disasters over time
A community resilience index measures multiple dimensions—social, economic, physical, and institutional—to help communities identify strengths and gaps in their resilience capacity over time.