Building Resilience After Disaster: Boulder, Colorado After the 2013 Floods

Disasters such as the 2013 Floods in Boulder and surrounding Colorado communities can cause damage that creates economic losses and social disruptions. This, in turn, can change how communities, engineers, and policy makers think about and plan for resilience. This panel—which consists of a National Science Foundation-funded team of engineers, computer scientists, communication scholars, and Boulder’s Chief Resilience Officer—has studied how community stakeholders define and foster community resilience post-disaster, using Boulder as a case study. They will present their findings, which frame resiliency as the interdependency between built, social, and information infrastructures.

Moderators:

Abbie B. Liel, University of Colorado Boulder

Gregory Guibert, City of Boulder, CO

Shideh Dashti, University of Colorado Boulder

Amy Javernick-Will, University of Colorado Boulder

Leah Sprain, University of Colorado Boulder