Building Resilient Urban Communities

September 11th, 2012

Arriata ChakosUrban Resilience Strategies

Mary ComerioUC Berkeley

Jayant R KalagnanamIBM

Mark BakerEsri

Introduction

• A timely issue?• Examples of little pre planning for current

events. • Greater dialogue on the level of planning and

rebuilding communities for greater resilience. • Impacts of the

emergency are greater as they do not have the resilience plans in place.

Pre Disaster Resilience Initiatives

• Elements of a Resilience Plan :- Heath - Housing - Education - Environment - Economy

- Institutions - Infrastructure• What is our event timeline for planning?• Compressed Planning – relies on resources

available and the needs. • Issues of implementation:

- Political/social issues involved with resilience implementation.

- Logistics- Budget

Post Disaster Planning

- Assessment. - Do we have the right tools to assess the

impacts for rebuilding?- Role of Social media during an event.- What does a city rebuild to replace.

- Observe the past, or build for the new.- Is it ‘smart’ - Is it ‘resilient’

- The cycle of resilience planning?- SF Example from 1989- Preparation for the next event.

Role of Technology

• Operations level response tools and relevance to the planning activities- What is available and what is needed?

• Getting the right picture of the environment - ‘what, where, when’.

• Situational awareness in real time during an event,- Simulation models, spatial-temporal view of

resource availability to provide Information• Aggregate the remote and the local: multi-

modal information from various sources e.g. radar, satellites, sensors…

Summary