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Investigating Effective Methods For Aggregating, Organizing, Storing, Managing, And Disseminating Community Resilience Data, Jonathan A. Kemp Jr

WWU Graduate School Collection

Currently there is no comprehensive source of community resilience data. Geographic data is collected by multiple agents and stored using different schemas. In most cases the schemas that store the data do not relate them to concepts of community resilience, or the disasters the data could be associated with. So this begs the question, how can decentralized geographic data be leveraged to facilitate data-driven decision-making about community disaster resilience? This question was answered by completing three related objectives. First a data aggregation was performed, second a schema was created to organize data with respect to components of disaster resilience, and …