Standards development organizations accredited by The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) for meeting its essential requirements for openness, balance, consensus, and due process.
Designation
Unique combination of letters and numbers that serves as a reference about the standard’s origin, subject, and date of publication or revision.
Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Cities
A set of assessments that allow local governments to assess their disaster resilience.
Essential 1: Organize for Resilience
Assesses the existence of an effective organization and planning focus within the city, or building ownership/management, and its effectiveness in collaboration and sharing of information with internal and external stakeholders.
Essential 10: Expedite Recovery and Build Back Better
Deals with post disaster recovery – restarting life or economic activity in the city or building, executing repairs and learning from what happened to enable an improved response next time around.
Essential 2: Identify, Understand, and Use Current and Future Risk Scenarios
Assesses the understanding of disaster risks or hazards that the city or building owner/manager has.
Essential 3: Strengthen Financial Capacity for Resilience
Addresses the “financial architecture” of disaster resilience – funding it, budgeting for it and protecting those funds.
Essential 4: Pursue Resilient Urban Development
Addresses the development and application to the building of land use zoning and building codes that meet or exceed resilience requirements.
Essential 5: Safeguard National Buffers
Addresses the extent to which the city or building preserves or, even better, enhances the protective functions offered by natural ecosystems.
Essential 6: Strengthen Institutional Capacity for Resilience
Addresses the capability of cities or building owners/managers to identify risks and plan, prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters. There are two broad areas – skills; and information sharing, availability and access.