The COPEWELL Rubric: A Self-Assessment Toolkit to Strengthen Community Resilience to Disasters.

ABSTRACT: Measurement is a community endeavor that can enhance the ability to anticipate, withstand, and recover from a disaster, as well as foster learning and adaptation. This project's purpose was to develop a self-assessment toolkit-manifesting a bottom-up, participatory approach-that enables people to envision community resilience as a concrete, desirable, and obtainable goal; organize a cross-sector effort to evaluate and enhance factors that influence resilience; and spur adoption of interventions that, in a disaster, would lessen impacts, preserve community functioning, and prompt a more rapid recovery. In 2016-2018, we engaged in a process of literature review, instrument development, stakeholder engagement, and local field-testing, to produce a self-assessment toolkit (or "rubric") built o

SUBMITTER: Schoch-Spana M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6651431 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature