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Launching a National Conversation on Disaster Resilience in America

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esilience is a word often used to describe people, cities, or nations who demonstrate strength and coping skills to recover from adverse conditions. With the increasing frequency of natural and human-induced disasters and the increasing magnitude of their consequences, it is clear that governments and communities need to become more resilient. The National Research Council brought together a committee of experts to address the importance of resilience, discuss different challenges and approaches for building resilience, and outline steps for implementing resilience efforts in communities and within government (see Box P-1 for the committee’s statement of task for the consensus report and its recommendations). The committee’s report Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative (The National Academies, 2012), serves as a central reference for understanding resilience, the current state of the nation’s resilience to disasters, and ways in which the nation can move on a path toward greater resilience. The report was also a basis for a one-day workshop on November 30, 2012 in Washington, DC, that formally launched a national conversation on resilience designed to engage individuals, the public, and government officials in considering and implementing national disaster resilience (see Agenda in Appendix A). This document is a summary of that one-day workshop. This workshop consisted of a morning event to formally launch the release of the committee’s report, and afternoon breakout sessions to further examine some of the committee’s recommendations in detail. Although the one-day workshop could not cover all of the many aspects of disaster resilience important to the nation or the meeting participants, the effort to draw upon the expertise of a diverse set of speakers, panelists, and participants was designed to provide engaged and informed input to ongoing resilience discussions that could translate into resilience-building actions.

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1-72

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978-0-309-28971-9

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