Towards measuring resilience of flood-prone communities: a conceptual framework
Author
Oladokun, Victor O.; Montz, Burrell E.
Abstract
Community resilience has become an important
policy and research concept for understanding and addressing the challenges associated with the interplay of climate
change, urbanization, population growth, land use, sustainability, vulnerability and increased frequency of extreme
flooding. Although measuring resilience has been identified
as a fundamental step toward its understanding and effective management, there is, however, lack of an operational
measurement framework due to the difficulty of systematically integrating socioeconomic and techno-ecological factors. The study examines the challenges, constraints and
construct ramifications that have complicated the development of an operational framework for measuring resilience
of flood-prone communities. Among others, the study highlights the issues of proliferation of definitions and conceptual frameworks of resilience, challenges of data availability, data variability and data compatibility. Adopting the National Academies’ definition of resilience, a conceptual and
mathematical model was developed using the dimensions,
quantities and relationships established by the definition. A
fuzzy logic equivalent of the model was implemented to generate resilience indices for three flood-prone communities
in the United States. The results indicate that the proposed
framework offers a viable approach for measuring community flood resilience, even when there is a limitation on data
availability and compatibility.
Date
2019-06-17
Citation:
APA:
Oladokun, Victor O., & Montz, Burrell E.. (June 2019).
Towards measuring resilience of flood-prone communities: a conceptual framework.
,
(),
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. Retrieved from
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/8353
MLA:
Oladokun, Victor O., and Montz, Burrell E..
"Towards measuring resilience of flood-prone communities: a conceptual framework". .
. (),
June 2019.
September 30, 2023.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/8353.
Chicago:
Oladokun, Victor O. and Montz, Burrell E.,
"Towards measuring resilience of flood-prone communities: a conceptual framework," , no.
(June 2019),
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/8353 (accessed
September 30, 2023).
AMA:
Oladokun, Victor O., Montz, Burrell E..
Towards measuring resilience of flood-prone communities: a conceptual framework. .
June 2019;
():
.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/8353. Accessed
September 30, 2023.
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