Year: 2018
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Relevance
Gulf Coast community leaders need a simple, inexpensive and effective method of determining if their communities will reach and maintain an acceptable level of functioning after a disaster. MASGC was a leader in developing the original Coastal Community Resilience Index (CRI), which is a self-assessment tool that has been widely used and benefited communities throughout the country. MASGC is now coordinating and leading an overall effort to enhance the original CRI by adding three new elements. One of those elements is adding mapping and visualization tools to the CRI.
Response
In 2018, the project team, made up of people from the Gulf region Sea Grant programs, NOAA’s Gulf of Mexico Regional Collaboration Team and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, developed the participatory mapping and visualization tool element of the enhanced CRI. The project team pilot tested this new approach with numerous communities in Alabama, Florida and Louisiana. One of the pilot tests was with Santa Rosa County, Florida.
Results
Santa Rosa County, Florida, used the results of the pilot testing of the CRI with mapping and visualization elements to support the development of a county-wide Disaster Recovery Comprehensive Plan. Additional impacts likely will occur as the enhanced CRI transitions from pilot testing of the three new elements to finalization and distribution of the updated tool.
Recap
Santa Rosa County (Florida), with assistance from Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium (MASGC), other Gulf of Mexico Sea Grant programs, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and NOAA’s Gulf of Mexico Regional Collaboration Team, used information gained during an Enhanced Community Resiliency Index (E-CRI) pilot testing workshop to develop a county-wide Disaster Recovery Comprehensive Plan. (2018)