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Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-125).;Introduction -- Definitions of Terms -- System-of-Systems Conceptual Frameworks for Resilience Decisionmaking -- Indicators and Metric Systems -- Resilience in Practice -- Decision Support Tools -- Case Studies of Decision Support Tool Implementation for Flooding -- Summary of Findings -- Appendix: Summary Tables. This report summarizes the literature on definitions of resilience to flood risk, conceptual system-of-systems frameworks to analyze resilience, metric and indicator systems for measuring resilience, and examples of resilience-building in action at the community level. The literature suggests three main themes associated with the concept of resilience: (1) reducing the likelihood of a disaster and a community's ability to absorb or resist a shock, (2) increasing a system's adaptability while still maintaining function in the presence of a shock, and (3) reducing the time to recovery to normal functioning that might differ from pre-event functioning. These themes translate into capacities at the community or regional level that are essential to achieving resilience: absorptive or resistive capacity, adaptive capacity, and restorative capacity. Conceptual frameworks can be categorized into two groups: systems that segment the world by public service sectors (e.g., electric, water, and transportation) and systems that segment along functional lines (e.g., social, built, or natural).
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This report summarizes the literature on definitions of resilience to flood risk, conceptual system-of-systems frameworks to analyze resilience, metric and indicator systems for measuring resilience, and examples of resilience-building in action at the community level. It also catalogs decision support tools for flood mitigation and provides examples of their use. Finally, it makes recommendations for further investigation of the tools.