¶ Project Summary:
Disaster resilience research is concerned with learning how people prepare for and deal with damage to their communities because of events such as floods, fires, pandemics, and other existential threats. The concepts of risk, vulnerability, and sustainability are very important because of the impact they have on individuals’ lives and well-being.
However, advancing science-based resilience research is hard because the data used to measure disaster resilience come from many different sources and are difficult to merge — especially for researchers who do not have extensive quantitative training.
This project overcomes those difficulties by developing a national cyberinfrastructure called the Human Dynamics and Resilience Infrastructure that contains large-scale data and analytic tools. Knowledge gained from analyzing the data can better inform policies to increase community resilience.
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