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  • Coastal hazards like storm surge and sea-level rise pose significant threats to infrastructure and communities.
  • Current risk management strategies often lack sufficient focus on coastal resilience and community stakeholder engagement.
  • Lack of early stakeholder involvement in resilience planning leads to frustration and inadequate preparedness post-disaster.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce a methodology for stakeholder-involved resilience discussions.
  • To integrate performance assessment and scenario analysis for characterizing disruptions.
  • To enhance community resilience planning for coastal hazards.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a methodology for resilience discussions across physical, information, cognitive, and social domains.
  • Incorporated resilience stages: prepare, absorb, recover, and adapt.
  • Utilized performance assessment and scenario analysis to evaluate risk management priorities.

Main Results:

  • The methodology facilitates comprehensive resilience discussions involving community stakeholders.
  • It effectively integrates different domains and stages of resilience.
  • Case study application at Mobile Bay, Alabama, demonstrated the methodology's utility.

Conclusions:

  • Early and continuous stakeholder involvement is crucial for effective coastal resilience.
  • The proposed methodology provides a structured approach to enhance community resilience planning.
  • This framework aids in preparing for, absorbing, recovering from, and adapting to coastal hazards.