Institutional resilience encompasses characteristics related to mitigation, planning, and prior disaster experience. It affects resilience in terms of capacity of communities to reduce risk, to engage local residents in mitigation, to create organizational linkages, and to enhance and protect the social systems within a community. Institutional resilience variables include the percentage of the population covered by a recent hazard mitigation plan, and the number of administrative units present in the area (a measure of political fragmentation).
Proposed indicators for institutional resilience include:
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Category |
Indicator |
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Mitigation |
Percent population covered by hazard mitigation plan |
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Damage coverage |
Percent housing units covered by insurances |
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Municipal services |
Percent municipal expenditures for fire, police, and emergency medical services |
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Political fragmentation |
Number of governments and special districts (negative) |
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Mitigation and social connectivity |
Percent population participating to Civil Protection volunteers programs |
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Previous disaster experience |
Number of paid disaster declarations |
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