Author(s) Renschler, C.S.

The PEOPLES resilience framework: An integrated quantitative measure and modeling of sustainable development and disaster risk reduction

Source

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)

This paper discusses the PEOPLES Resilience Framework, which has been used to create partnerships and communicate pre- and post-disaster recovery of extreme events. The framework can be combined with environmental, infrastructure, economic or any other quantitative model to assess future scenarios. It is based on seven dimensions: population and demographics, environmental, governmental, physical infrastructure, lifestyle, economic development, social-cultural capital.

The author proposes the following recommendations:

Keeping the seven baseline dimensions, the sub-categories of each dimension need to be reviewed by each country.
The PEOPLES approach can integrate widely accepted, scientifically valid environmental, economic or other mathematical models.
The PEOPLES Resilience Framework is not only for a large, national scale disaster or only after disaster assessment.

This document is an input paper of the 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction.