Assessing Resilience in Buffalo, New York

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Assessing Resilience in Buffalo, New York 
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A Vignette in Resilience
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Is Buffalo Resilient? 
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Resilience the ability to anticipate, prepare
for, respond to and recover from a shock or stress
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A Resilience Model
Performance, e.g., of the economy,
infrastructure, civic engagement, environment
Non-resilience
Time
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Resilience f (assets and endowments
Methods Linking Assets to Success and
Resilience
response)
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Response Elaborated
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So, I repeat, is Buffalo resilient? 
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(A delay tactic.) Of which system, over what
time, to which challenge?
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A reminder
Resilience the ability to anticipate, prepare
for, respond to and recover from a shock or
stress
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Buffalo Metro Economic Resilience Performance
Phase, 1970-2000
Chronic Shocks, Stresses
Manufacturing peers (n14)
Performance population change, job change,
income change, poverty change
Rustbelt peers (n17)
New York peers (n9 or 10)
1970
1980
1990
2000
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Buffalo Metro Economic Resilience Preparation
Phase, 1970-2000
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Is Buffalo Resilient? Finally, An Answer
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Three Conclusions
2. Resilience research is full of challenges
conceptual, methodological, analytical
3. Resilience research is full of promise links
assets, interventions and outcomes, many under
local control
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Assessing Resilience in Buffalo, New York