Building robust risk management as a method of situational awareness at the local level

Management of risk at the community level continues to be challenging despite the creation of frameworks to support the management of various typologies of risk. As the scope and form of emergent risk evolves, our situational awareness tools and methodologies must also change to identify risks and possible impacts, events, and opportunities for mitigation. This paper examines the major risk frameworks applicable to community systems, and how they may be combined with historical and real-time data to provide a richer awareness of the existing operational environment during potential and actual calamities. The paper concludes with an examination of our opportunities to advance holistic risk management through the application of systems standards.