Resilience Model Essay

DIFFERENT MODEL IN MEASURING THE RESILIENCE OF A COMMUNITY Some effort have been made in order to measure the level of resilience. Several model has been generated as a result. In this paper there are only three model that will be discussed. That are PEOPLE model, Cutters model and Torrens model.

PEOPLES model
PEOPLE model is a model which developed based on seven important aspects. Those aspects are population and demography, environment/ecosystem, organized government service, physical infrastructure, lifestyle and community competence, and economic development. Compare with the other two model, this model has more variabel to be considered. However, like other model, this model are also have some strenght and weakness.
Strenght and weakness

There are community connectedness, risk & vulnerability, planning & procedure and available resources (Torrens Resilence Institute, 2009).
Strenght and weakness
Compared to other models, this model is the simplest model but has covered various aspects of DRR. This simplicity make this model easy to apply and does not require time and resources as PEOPLE model. However, the variable measured is very broad and general. Many important aspects is not well describe and measured, it is contrast with PEOPLE model which measure every aspect in different variable.

CUTTERS model
Cutters model of resilience is a model that use five components in measuring resilience. There are social resilience, economic resilience, institutional resilience, infrastructure and community capital. Compare to the PEOPLE model and Torrens model, Cutters model has moderate consideration. It is more complex than Torrens model but less comprehensive than PEOPLE model.
Strenght and

The Cutters model is the simplest model but can cover most of the detailed aspect. This characteristic is enough to use as a judgement tool to score overall condition of one place with another.
In measuring resilience with Cutters model, the first step that I have to do is modifying the scope of the variabel in each characteristic so that it will match with local context. One of the challange in implementing measurement model of resilient is considerate the local context. Every measurement should be put into local context. Failure to identify the context in applying measurement could result in irrelevant result and poor prediction (Food Security Information Network [FSIN],