ABSTRACT
Resilience is the ability to prepare for and adapt to changing conditions and withstand and recover rapidly from disruptions. Resilience includes the ability to withstand and recover from deliberate attacks, accidents, or naturally occurring threats or incidents. Thus, comprehensive community resilience assessment and planning includes (1) a planning stage prior to an event to reduce the immediate adverse affects of a hazard strike on a community, (2) the response stage following a hazard event, and (3) the recovery stages. In this paper I will introduce community resilience planning as a stage-wise multi-disciplinary approach to enable analysts the ability to inform communities based on an array of community resilience metrics during the recovery process. The concepts are explained in terms of tornado hazard but all are general and applicable to any community and/or hazard. Finally, a brief introduction to the Interdependent Networked Community Resilience Modeling Environment (IN-CORE) is provided.
