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Strengthening Regional Resilience: Final Report and Recommendations
"Strengthening the resilience of regions and their critical infrastructures is essential for achieving national resilience. Over the past decade, adjacent regions and infrastructures have become more interconnected, enabling local disasters to ripple across multiple jurisdictions and sectors, causing disruption and damage over large geographic areas. Resilience is especially important in the lifeline sectors -- energy, communication, water, and transportation -- because they underpin the most essential functions of business, government, and communities. Much has been done to build partnerships and improve resilience nationwide . But when disaster strikes, the biggest hit is felt by the regions and local communities that must respond and confront the immediate consequences. [...] This study focuses on the resilience of 'lifeline sectors' (energy, communications, water, and transportation) within regions that have complex multistate, multijurisdictional, and cross-sector interdependencies, and which would have large national impacts if they were to fail catastrophically. Interdependencies among lifeline sectors create a risk environment in which a disruption in one infrastructure or region can spread to other sectors and regions, often in unexpected ways."
National Infrastructure Advisory Council (U.S.)
Lau, Constance H.; Scott, Beverly
2013-11-21
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Transportation Sector Resilience: Final Report and Recommendations [2015]
From the Executive Summary: "The Nation's transportation system is crucial to the U.S. economy and the overall quality of life for Americans from all walks of life. In today's increasingly complex and connected society, every critical infrastructure sector depends on a resilient transportation system that is safe, secure, reliable and efficient in the movement of people and goods; without it, most critical services cease to function. In recognition of this important role, the President directed the National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) to examine the resilience of the Nation's transportation sector to determine potential gaps and identify opportunities for the Federal Government to improve the sector's resilience and security. Throughout this study, infrastructure resilience is defined as the ability to reduce the magnitude or duration of disruptive events that is accomplished by anticipating, absorbing, adapting to, or rapidly recovering from the disruption. In simplest terms, resilient systems can maintain critical functions during a disruption and require less time and fewer resources to recover functions that have degraded."
National Infrastructure Advisory Council (U.S.); United States. Department of Homeland Security
Baylis, Jack; Gerstell, Glenn S.; Scott, Beverly . . .
2015-07-10
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National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC): Regional Resilience Working Group [presentation]
This presentation from the National Infrastructure Advisory Council focuses on regional resilience. Topics covered in the presentation include: Definition of Regional Resilience, Study Objectives, Best Practices, Process Improvements, Federal Role,Preliminary Approach, Next Steps, and Questions for the Administration.
National Infrastructure Advisory Council (U.S.)
Scott, Beverly; Lau, Constance H.
2012-07-17
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