Building and Measuring Community Resilience: Actions for Communities and the Gulf Research Program

This is a consensus study report on the Gulf Research Program’s findings on effective options for measuring resilience at the community level. This report summarizes the existing portfolio of relevant or related resilience measurement efforts and notes gaps and challenges associated with them. It describes how some communities build and measure resilience and offers four key actions that communities could take to build and measure their resilience in order to address gaps identified in current community resilience measurement efforts. Finally, the report provides recommendations to the GRP to build and measure resilience in the Gulf of Mexico region.