Reflections on the large-scale application of a community resilience measurement framework across the globe

Reflections on the large-scale application of a community resilience measurement framework across the globe

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This paper reflects on learnings and analysis from an extensively globally applied, standardized community disaster resilience measurement framework that utilises bottom-up (locally collected) data.These lessons, from over a decade of on-the-ground work and analysis, are based on empirical evidence and have salience for scholars, policy-makers and practitioners aiming to strengthen community disaster resilience and apply bottom-up community disaster resilience measurement approaches.The Flood Resilience Measurement for Mounting Plates Communities approach was co-designed and implemented by the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance: a transdisciplinary science-policy-practice collaboration including scientists, practitioners and private business.

It has been applied globally in approximately 400 communities worldwide, demonstrating the real-world impact of scalable community disaster resilience measurement initiatives.Findings provide evidence for the impacts and good practices of applying bottom-up community disaster resilience measurement approaches.Quantitative analysis on this unique dataset provides new entry points for research on typologies 6 LP Glides and dynamics of resilience, based on empirical evidence on human, social, physical, natural and financial dimensions.

Based on our analysis, we find that the use of bottom-up, multidimensional, standardized community disaster resilience measurement approaches is a worthwhile endeavour to support community disaster resilience strengthening.