Gamification for Resilience

12 PortlandRisk and Vulnerability Assessment

12.1 Introduction

Risks and vulnerabilities exist throughout every city. These risks and vulnerabilities have to be prioritized based on their consequence and frequency to decide best how to decrease the effects on the city. Critical assets throughout the city must also be identified and prioritized so that concerns for attacks on those assets can be managed. Risks in cities can also relate to emissions released by certain activities across the city. Most risks in a city can be controlled or brought down to a more tolerable effect. Several assessments can be performed, including rapid risk assessment (RRA), vulnerability assessment (VA), and integrated regional risk assessment (IRRA) to determine the most critical risks to a city. When developing a comprehensive implementation plan to solve a problem, it is essential to account for resiliency. This will allow for a developed system, or solution, capable of preventing and mitigating risks and recovering from failures. In these a ReIDMP can be helpful. This chapter aims to illustrate how the ReIDMP can be combined with readily available manuals, guidelines, assessments, and tools to better understand a city in terms of risks and vulnerabilities to mitigate their effects in a realistic case. To achieve this aim, this chapter is organized as follows: First, it articulates ten different risks in the selected city, Portland, Oregon (USA), using the RRA methodologies from Manual for the ...