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Building Regional Disaster Resilience

Launch a Vulnerability Assessment

Building Regional Disaster Resilience

Overall Process

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How is this process different?

• Goals and values-driven rather than checklist-driven
• Multi-discipline, multi-stakeholder process
• Multi-hazard, multi-regulation
• Offers way of organizing assets and approaching them systematically
• Goes beyond exposure to whatever depth you want
• Assessment tools highlight cross-disciplinary vulnerabilities
• Offers succinct and effective ways to summarize results
• Offers tools for evaluating and prioritizing strategic responses to vulnerability
• Provides templates for moving from strategies to action

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What does the toolkit include?

• Detailed guidance on 8-step vulnerability assessment process
• What has worked and why?
• What lessons have been learned?
• Exactly how much analysis do you need to do to find a balance between analysis

paralysis and uncoordinated action?

• How can you tell the right “story” with your analysis to catalyze real action?
• Worksheets, exercises, handouts, resources
• Framework for conceptually and procedurally connecting hazards,

disciplines, and regulatory requirements

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So, how does this apply to the Central Coast?

What we heard from survey participants about doing vulnerability assessments…

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What Plans Have you Done?

5 10 15 20 25 In development Completed or revised Implementation Emergency Operations Plan Local Hazard Mitigation Plan General Plan Update Local Coastal Program IRWMP Climate Mitigation Plan Climate Adaptation Plan

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What kind of vulnerability assessment have you done?

15 2 10 9 7 4 11 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 Local Coastal Plan Emergency Operations Plan Local Hazard Mitigation Plan General Plan IRWMP Climate Mitigation Plan Climate AdaptationPlan

Wh Where vulnerability assessment was done

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How many resilience regulations do you need to comply with?

19 7 5 3 7 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 1 2 3 4

Num Numbe ber of regul gulations ns conc ncerne ned d abo about ut

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How comfortable are you doing a vulnerability assessment yourself?

15% 63% 22%

COMFORT WITH IN-HOUSE VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT

Not at all A little Pretty comfortable

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Which stage of the assessment do you need help with?

14 17 20 15 11 6 28 5 10 15 20 25 30 Assembling the right kind of cross-disciplinary team Deciding on the correct scope for the assessment Connecting hazard types Going beyond exposure analysis Knowing which information is important to collect on assets Summarizing the assessment Making decisions about implementing strategies based on the assessment

Vu Vulnerability assessment items that need help

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Asset:

Hazard (note past occurrences): Hazard Impact Statement: Existing Conditions: Describe the asset and highlight current conditions or stressors that could afgect vulnerability. Physical asset functions (e.g., type of land use, community served, services provided): Type ¨ Residential ¨ Institutional ¨ Industrial ¨ Commercial ¨ Other: Community Served (e.g. public, elderly, low-income) Serves: Who owns the physical asset? Are the owner and manager difgerent? Owner ¨ Public ¨ Private Manager ¨ Public ¨ Private ¨ Difgerent than owner? Explain: What is the current condition of the asset? Has it recently been upgraded or retrofjtted? ¨ Yes ¨ No ¨ If, yes explain: Physical Vulnerabilities: Identify conditions or design aspects that make an asset particularly vulnerable to impacts. What characteristics make the asset more or less vulnerable to hazard? Examples include water or salt-sensitive mechanical components, or fmammable building materials.

Rapid Risk Assessment Exercise

Functional Vulnerabilities: Describe asset function and/or relationships with or dependence on other assets that can make them vulnerable to impacts. Is the asset part of a networked system such that damage to other parts

• f the system would afgect the asset’s ability to function?

¨ Yes ¨ No If yes, are there alternatives to maintain continuity of service? What external services does the asset rely on? ¨ Power ¨ Communications ¨ Food ¨ Fuel ¨ Materials/supplies ¨ Other: If external services were interrupted, are there back up supplies in place? ¨ Yes ¨ No If yes, how long would they last? (mark one) Hours Days Weeks Governance Vulnerabilities: Describe challenges with management, regulatory authority, or funding options for adapting to impacts. What governance issues exist and pose a potential risk? (Funding, governance, operation, management?) Are there funding sources that can be used to assess hazard risk, climate vulnerability or resilience? ¨ Yes ¨ No If yes, describe: Consequences: Describe potential impacts on society, equity, the economy, and the environment. Who in the community would be afgected by damage, disruption, or loss

• f asset function?

¨ People where the live ¨ People where they work ¨ People where they recreate ¨ Elderly ¨ Youth ¨ Low Income ¨ Other: What scale of economic disruption would occur if the asset was damaged, disrupted, or failed? ¨ Local ¨ Regional ¨ State ¨ National Describe: What would the consequences be to ecological services be if the asset was damaged or lost? ¨ Habitat or species benefjts ¨ Public access ¨ Flood risk management ¨ Water Quality ¨ Other:

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Example Vulnerability Statement

• “The City’s electric utility substation is located in the wildland-urban

interface and has been damaged by past wildfire events. It is also in a flood-induced landslide zone and could experience debris flows in a major storm. It serves 18,000 residential and commercial properties and it is the primary power source for this area.”

Key Asset + Past or Current Vulnerability = Potential Impact + Defined Audience