Assessing Community Resilience: Validating a Universally Applicable Flood Resilience Measurement Framework and Tool

Understanding and strengthening community-level resilience to natural hazard-induced disasters is critical for the management of adverse impacts of such events and the growth of community well-being. The approach and results in this report provide insights for resilience measurement approaches and their validation efforts. It also presents a comprehensive discussion about the dynamic aspects of flood resilience at community level, and the many validation aspects that need to be incorporated both in terms of quantification efforts as well as usability on the ground.