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

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...

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Main Authors: Adriana Keating, Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler, Reinhard Mechler, Finn Laurien, Naomi Rubenstein, Teresa Deubelli, Stefan Velev, Michael Szoenyi, David Nash
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Published: Elsevier 2025-04-01
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author Adriana Keating
Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler
Reinhard Mechler
Finn Laurien
Naomi Rubenstein
Teresa Deubelli
Stefan Velev
Michael Szoenyi
David Nash
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Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler
Reinhard Mechler
Finn Laurien
Naomi Rubenstein
Teresa Deubelli
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description 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 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 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.
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spelling doaj-art-18dcadb4d8dd4946a8258ca428f2b2de2025-08-20T02:11:50ZengElsevierClimate Services2405-88072025-04-013810056210.1016/j.cliser.2025.100562Reflections on the large-scale application of a community resilience measurement framework across the globeAdriana Keating0Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler1Reinhard Mechler2Finn Laurien3Naomi Rubenstein4Teresa Deubelli5Stefan Velev6Michael Szoenyi7David Nash8International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria; Corresponding author at: Systemic Risk and Resilience, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Schlossplatz 1, Laxenburg 2361, Austria.International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, AustriaInternational Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, AustriaInternational Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, AustriaInternational Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, AustriaInternational Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, AustriaInternational Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, AustriaZurich Insurance, SwitzerlandZurich Insurance, SwitzerlandThis 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 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 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.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405880725000238DisasterResilienceMeasurementCommunityFlood
spellingShingle Adriana Keating
Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler
Reinhard Mechler
Finn Laurien
Naomi Rubenstein
Teresa Deubelli
Stefan Velev
Michael Szoenyi
David Nash
Reflections on the large-scale application of a community resilience measurement framework across the globe
Climate Services
Disaster
Resilience
Measurement
Community
Flood
title Reflections on the large-scale application of a community resilience measurement framework across the globe
title_full Reflections on the large-scale application of a community resilience measurement framework across the globe
title_fullStr Reflections on the large-scale application of a community resilience measurement framework across the globe
title_full_unstemmed Reflections on the large-scale application of a community resilience measurement framework across the globe
title_short Reflections on the large-scale application of a community resilience measurement framework across the globe
title_sort reflections on the large scale application of a community resilience measurement framework across the globe
topic Disaster
Resilience
Measurement
Community
Flood
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405880725000238
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