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What is Resilience? Resilience stems from the Latin word resilire, meaning “to spring back”. Most definitions fluctuate between “the ability of a system to bounce back after stress” and “the capacity of systems to absorb shocks and adapt or transform in response to them.” In emergency management, resilience is applicable to people as well as businesses, communities, and jurisdictions.

Today we face rapid urbanization. Disasters are becoming increasingly worse. There are huge economic impacts from natural hazard damages and coastline changes. A resiliency strategy can help keep a community or organization mitigate – or adapt to – these stressors!

Hagerty knows the full array of disaster recovery funds available to increase resiliency, and many of them can be used at all phases of emergency management.

Hagerty Can Help: Recovery Planning

State of New Hampshire - Hagerty guided the development of the state’s first Disaster Recovery Plan, to include a base Recovery Plan and six supporting Recovery Support Function (RSF) Annexes. The Hagerty team worked with the state to exercise the plan and facilitate a ‘defining resilience’ workshop. Chatham County, Georgia - Hagerty developed a comprehensive disaster recovery plan for Chatham County that aligns to the National Disaster Recovery Framework and serves as a model recovery plan for large Georgia counties. Montgomery County, Maryland - Hagerty developed Montgomery County, Maryland’s county-wide recovery plan based on short-term and long-term priorities, as well as specific plans for restoration of vital services and facilities.

Resilient Redevelopment Planning

Chatham County, Georgia - Hagerty led the development of a redevelopment plan that guides action and decision making during a long-term community redevelopment and details the actions that can be taken before a disaster occurs to speed the recovery and foster development of a more resilient community.

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Learn More To learn more about the innovative and customized solutions Hagerty Consulting can provide to your entity, jurisdiction, business or organization, contact:

development@hagertyconsulting.com Evanston Office: 847-492-8454

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Who is Hagerty? Hagerty Consulting is an emergency

management consulting firm that

helps clients prepare for and

recover from disasters. Established

in 2001, Hagerty’s offices are in

Evanston, Illinois (corporate

headquarters), Austin, Texas, and

Washington, D.C. Hagerty

professionals live in all 10 FEMA

regions and provide a rich breadth

of emergency management

experience to client assignments.

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Why is Resilience Important? Disasters Are Becoming Worse

Vulnerable Development1 Development often occurs where there is risk of total loss due to natural disasters.

A Changing Climate Climate change affects the severity and frequency of disasters.

Disasters Are Becoming More Costly

Continued Coastal Development2 By 2050, $66-$106 billion of coastal property is projected to be below sea level.

Communities are Paying for Disasters Damages from disasters cost local communities billions of dollars

Disasters Are Affecting More People

A Changing Population America’s resilience is affected by the economy, an aging population, health issues such as increasing rates of obesity, and a declining sense of community.

Urban Population Changes Urban areas’ populations balloon during the day because of commuting.

1 United Nations, World Urbanizations Prospects: The 2007 Revision (The United Nations Publication, 2008) 2 http://riskybusiness.org/index.php?p=reports/national-report/executive-summary

Make Your Plan for Resilience:

Step 1: Define Resilience

Step 2: Establish a Core Resilience Team

Step 3: Characterize Your Community

Step 4: Understand Risks and Impacts

Step 5: Set Goals

Step 6: Develop an Action Plan

Establish a specific, local definition of what resilience

actually means to your community.

Represent public, private, and non-profit interests, and identify resilience champions.

Understand the social dimensions that drive the built environment and understand that

built environment and its interdependencies.

Identify hazard types and levels. Recognize and understand likely impacts on social and

built systems.

Establish desired and expected performance.

Establish acceptable recovery timeframe

goals.

Identify and prioritize gaps, identify methods

and strategies, and identify longer-term construction actions.

Hagerty’s Work Includes a Variety of Resiliency Projects: ü Long-term Strategic Planning

ü Post-disaster Redevelopment Planning

ü Community Risk Reduction Planning

ü Climate Impact Analyses

ü Communications Planning

ü Land Use and Zoning Programs

ü Insurance Coverage

ü Feasibility Studies

ü Risk Assessments

ü Housing Recovery and Redevelopment Plans

ü Risk Reduction Planning for Vulnerable Populations

ü Hazards-integrated Comparisons for Plans and Codes

ü Economic Recovery and Redevelopment Analyses and Plans