Question

Explain what “resiliency metric” is?

econ

Answer 1

Resilience can be defined as the ability of a facility or asset to anticipate, resist, absorb, respond to, adapt to, and recover from a disturbance. Concept of resilience has broad appeal . It is not a new concept, its history is within ecological, engineering, and mentalhealth disciplines. There is no widely accepted metrics or methodology. The Important criteria and features of infrastructure and community resilience: Quality and supply of infrastructure and Economic metrics

Development of an indicator of resilience is focusing on 4 of the major components –

1.preparedness

2mitigation measures

3 response capabilities

4 recovery mechanisms

Each of the given components cover many more components respectively which are:

– Preparedness covers the part of awareness and planning as well

– Mitigation Measurescovers the area of  Mitigating construction, Alternate Site and Resources Mitigation Measures (dependencies)

– Response Capabilities includes all the nnsite as well as offsite capabilities, Incident management and command center characteristics

– Recovery Mechanisms includes the restoration agreements and recovery time.

Metrics Development section Identify goals and objectives

Characteristics of good metrics

Comprehensive

Understandable

Practical

Non-redundant

Minimal

The above create defensible, transparent and repeatable metrics these are Metrics for different purposes and levels which are Performance based vs. strategic , Industry focused on outcomes and Work with their goals to gauge resilience . Non-outcome based could be equally meaningful but harder to internalize