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Stress Testing to Assess Recovery from Extreme Events

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  • Plodinec M. John

    (Community and Regional Resilience Institute, 334 Ascot Dr, Aiken, SC, USA)

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Over the last decade, communities have become increasingly aware of the risks they face. They are threatened by natural disasters, which may be exacerbated by climate change and the movement of land masses. Growing globalization has made a pandemic due to the rapid spread of highly infectious diseases ever more likely. Societal discord breeds its own threats, not the least of which is the spread of radical ideologies giving rise to terrorism. The accelerating rate of technological change has bred its own social and economic risks. This widening spectrum of risk poses a difficult question to every community – how resilient will the community be to the extreme events it faces. In this paper, we present a new approach to answering that question. It is based on the stress testing of financial institutions required by regulators in the United States and elsewhere. It generalizes stress testing by expanding the concept of “capital” beyond finance to include the other “capitals” (e.g., human, social) possessed by a community. Through use of this approach, communities can determine which investments of its capitals are most likely to improve its resilience. We provide an example of using the approach, and discuss its potential benefits.

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  • Plodinec M. John, 2021. "Stress Testing to Assess Recovery from Extreme Events," Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, De Gruyter, vol. 18(2), pages 151-176.
  • Handle: RePEc:bpj:johsem:v:18:y:2021:i:2:p:151-176:n:1002
    DOI: 10.1515/jhsem-2020-0012
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