Last week NADO was invited to join the Regional Infrastructure Disaster Resilience (RIDR) Task Force to discuss possible upgrades to a 2006 disaster resilience guide. At first, I had my doubts that the document in question would be too urban-focused to be of value to our stakeholders.
Regional councils and economic development districts, being unique in form and purpose, require a disaster recovery strategy that is broad enough to encompass local governments and the adjoining business community, yet not too wide-angled to be effective in a recovery situation. Plus, with all the toolkits and online resources available today, disaster coordinators can often be daunted into using a guide that doesn't appropriately suit their needs.
To say that I was pleasantly surprised by the 2006 version of the document would be an understatement (turns out it's good enough for the Army Corps of Engineers to use, which is a pretty strong endorsement).
Entitled Regional Disaster Resilience: A Guide for Developing an Action Plan, the guide is a thorough, easily understood laundry list of short-, medium- and long-range action items across a multitude of focus areas (cyber threats, public-private partnerships, risk assessment, etc.).
Although not all the information is wholly suitable for regional councils, it can be easily massaged into a workable plan. Once I have a better understanding of the direction Version 2.0 of the document is taking, I'll be sure to pass it along.
In the mean-time, please read through the guide and submit any thoughts in the comment box below: http://www.tisp.org/index.cfm?cdid=10962&pid=10261
Cheers,
Mike Bellamente
Program Manager - Resilient Region Initiative
NADO Research Foundation
http://twitter.com/ResilientRegion
P.S. The NADO Research Foundation would like to recognize The Infrastructure Security Partnership (TISP) for all their great work in the realm of disaster resiliency: http://www.tisp.org/
Monday, April 26, 2010
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