Advances in Measuring Economic Resilience to Disasters

Wed. 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Interlocken C

The term resilience is increasingly used to address aspects of how we cope with disasters. Unfortunately, it is typically not often defined or measured. This session will present advances in measuring the economic aspects implementing resilience. Participants will address the extent to which economic resilience overlaps with other resilience concepts, offer rigorous definitions, and report on metrics at the micro (individual businesses/household/non-profit/government agencies), meso (industry and market), and macro (regional and national economies) levels. Ways in which the concepts of economic resilience can be useful to practitioners will also be explored.

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