ResilienceIQ™
Evidence-based technology solutions for building equitable community resilience
We’ve successfully deployed our solutions in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi and with IF Design’s help, we would like to deploy it to Puerto Rico, one of the most at-risk and disadvantaged communities in the U.S., to help them build social, economic, and environmental resilience for their citizens and businesses and fragile natural ecosystems.
Building Community Resilience
To arm local communities with solutions never before available to them, our team of world-class technologists integrates existing, sophisticated data and technology to develop a new solution that empowers local communities to develop and evaluate evidence-based resilience solutions to secure a more sustainable, resilient, equitable future for all.
Using agent-based modeling and scenario planning technologies, combined with digital twin technology and AI, we can model and forecast natural disaster risk for any community and uncover optimal mitigation solutions.
Layering digital twin technology with agent-based modeling and StateBook’s powerful data analytics enables us to analyze risk, identify optimal mitigation and adaptation solutions, and run scenarios to determine each solution’s cost-benefit and social, economic, and environmental impact BEFORE investments are made – then track and benchmark progress.
The Time is Now!
With climate disasters increasing in both frequency and severity, we are out of time. Communities globally must take this challenge on locally.
To maximize impact, communities must be as informed as possible, leveraging all possible information across social, economic, and environmental factors to create sustainable resilience solutions.
ResilienceIQ™ is the solution.
Analytics & Insights
Layering in StateBook’s comprehensive data, we can gain a deep understanding of the impacts that residents, businesses, and infrastructure may experience. We can examine the exacerbating effects of poverty, racial disparities, and lack of affordable housing on a community’s ability to build resilience and better understand the broader implications on the community’s healthcare systems, housing, energy, and more.
As an example, below, we look at the FEMA National Risk Index to evaluate hazards at the Census tract level, then analyze areas of high risk on the map against other factors like which industries would be impacted? If people can’t get to work because of a natural disaster, which occupations will be affected and what would be the impact on the broader economy due to lost wages? What social and economic disparities exist in the most at-risk locations, such as racial or income disparities?
See below an example of the FEMA map showing natural disaster risk agains where pockets of poverty may exist.
You can also analyze affordable housing issues on the map or in charts, graphs, and tables. Below, use the slider in the chart to see where people in the area spend more than 50% of their annual household income on rent. The table on the right illustrates where homes may be in need of renovation because they are too old to meet current building codes, putting them at higher risk in high-disaster areas.
Equity & Inclusivity
Leveraging data, science, and technology, we empower leaders to deliver equitable outcomes that improve community well-being and foster long-term, sustainable, inclusive growth. And, our solution transparently tracks, benchmarks, and consistently reports actual impact delivered over time.
For example, here we are tracking the Gini Index of Income Inequality to see how it compares to state and national data over time.
Empowering Front-Line Communities for Equitable Growth
Our publicly-available ResilienceIQ™ solution integrates existing, powerful data, science, and technology into a single platform:
- Using agent-based modeling to assess risk/pinpoint optimal interventions.
- Providing scenario planning and cost-benefit analysis, enabling stakeholders to explore and evaluate potential responses to specific threats/hazards.
- Offering customizable modeling/simulation tools that accommodate each geographic region’s unique challenges, social and economic fabric, and natural disaster risks.
- Transparently tracks, benchmarks, and consistently reports actual impact delivered over time.
Community Engagement
Building climate resilience is a very personal journey for a community. Communities do not appreciate “experts” with “technology” coming in to tell them what they should do. Our ResilienceIQ™ solution empowers communities to embark on their own journeys toward climate resilience, armed with data and technology resources to help ensure their risk assessments, adaptation and mitigation strategies, project investments and ongoing reporting are evidence-based.
To complement our technology, our economic development partners collaborate with their communities, building
capacity and training them on how to use the technology to create evidence-based strategies, implement projects, and track and benchmark progress to ensure equitable, inclusive growth that is community-led and sustainable.
Resilience Is an Investment, Not a Cost!
Only 4% of climate finance is dedicated to adaptation, according to the U.N. Disaster Risk Reduction Agency.
The gap between what is needed for adaptation of communities around the world is $131 billion per year and is expected to increase to $240 billion per year by 2030.
Integrating robust cost-benefit analysis, including net present value internal rate of return, into our platform’s economic impact
models enables community stakeholders to assess what the future holds with or without specific investments in adaptation and mitigation.
ResilienceIQ™
Information Advantage for Community Resilience