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11. Early Warning Systems to Strengthen the Resilience of Communities to Extreme Events

Authors : Ron Fisher, Frédéric Petit, Celia Porod

Published in: Handbook of Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience

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Community resilience is comprised of four pillars, infrastructure, organizational, social, and personal, all of which need consideration when developing, implementing, or improving an early warning system (EWS). The complexity of assessing community resilience is exacerbated by the interconnections between the community’s core components, the multiplicity of hazards that may strike, but primarily by the difficulty to obtain the data to understand these phenomena. By ensuring the four main components are integrated into an EWS, the community will be better able to anticipate and understand hazards, as well as support the preparedness of the communities and their assets to mitigate consequences. A community’s ability to respond to and recover from extreme weather events resulting from climate change requires ongoing community-wide planning and preparation efforts for activities before, during, and after an event. The implementation and adoption of EWS have proved beneficial in alerting individuals of impending climate danger. While acknowledging the increase in extreme climate events, enhanced EWS are needed for greater preparedness to improve community resilience to all types of extreme events.

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Title: Early Warning Systems to Strengthen the Resilience of Communities to Extreme Events
Authors: Ron Fisher
Frédéric Petit
Celia Porod
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Handbook of Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-61277-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-61278-8

Copyright Year: 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61278-8_11

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