Dimensions of Resilience

HuRRI will catalyze innovation in 6 dimensions of hurricane and severe storm resilience.

Mitigation

Mitigation in the HuRRI resilience framework examines the full range of possibilities including structural and non-structural measures, green infrastructure, low impact development, densification, and intelligent sprawl. Mitigation aims to harden public and private infrastructure and soften environmental consequences of hurricanes and severe storms.

HuRRI envisions the planning and design of the built and natural environment such that it is more resilient to future hurricanes and other adverse weather events and promotes looking more broadly at urban and regional planning solutions, landscape design, and building design to obviate the adverse impact of climate change.

Assessment

Assessing true hurricane impacts in HuRRI answers the question: could this have been prevented? Real-time monitoring networks, sensor systems, geo-based big data, and visualization tools are emerging technologies to assess primary impacts (flooding, wind and storm surge damage) and differentiate them from associated (environmental) and co-incidental impacts (economic losses). Assessment learns from the past and continually plans for a more resilient future.

Prediction

Predicting hurricanes in HuRRI involves developing hindsight, foresight and real-time models and simulators. Resilient predictive tools encompass people, systems, and infrastructure in addition to simulating storm surge, wind fields and rainfall. Scenarios of hurricanes and severe storms answer “what if?” questions and lead to better risk identification, risk reduction, preparedness and mitigation.

Protection

Protection from hurricanes and severe storms in HuRRI encompasses the built landscape, flood warning networks, evacuation and sheltering planning and understanding human behavior when confronted with a crisis. Resilient protection revisits building codes and building standards and develops house-level floodproofing materials and technologies and communities that are adept at protecting themselves.

Education

Education in HuRRI builds well-informed communities empowered with knowledge, tools and resources. Education for hurricane and severe storm resilience in HuRRI encompasses K-20 programs and workforce training and engages educators, trainers, and instructors from both public and private sectors including non-governmental organizations.

Recovery

HuRRI develops systematic approaches, concepts, and measures for quantifying and modeling recovery that do not assume the past to be an accurate predictor of the future, but rather account for and adapt to possible changes in risks and hazards. HuRRI connects the developed tools to policy and re-entry plans in an adaptive and evergreen mode.