URISA would like to request a few minutes of your time to help us understand how you or your organization uses geospatial technologies to support community resilience.
For this survey we define community resilience as the ability of individuals, communities, organizations and government agencies to effectively incorporate geospatial technologies and data to reduce risk and impacts of natural disasters. It defines abilities and strengths to adapt to and recover from disasters as well as any downstream shocks or stressors without compromising long-term prospects for development.
Community resilience is composed of seven main elements that leverage geospatial technologies to manage, analyze and produce information in pursuit of a holistic approach to resilience. These include, but are not limited to local knowledge about risks, vulnerabilities and impacts; social networks; transportation and utility infrastructures; public health risks and services; governance procedures for addressing a crisis; economic investments; and preparedness.
Survey responses will be used to inform the identification of best practices in the effective use of GIS to support community resilience. These will be leveraged in the coming months to develop a series of webinars, reports and other products. If you are not the appropriate person to respond to this survey, or if you know of others who may wish to complete it, please forward this request. Your responses will remain confidential unless you choose to provide your contact information.
The survey can be accessed here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/URISA_CommunityResilience
All responses are due no later than 5:00 pm Eastern on Friday, June 21, 2019.
We thank you for your time!