Community and Regional Resilience Initiative (CARRI)
Community and Regional Resilience Initiative (CARRI) : "CARRI is a groundbreaking program being led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in conjunction with a variety of other federal, regional, state and local partners. The goal of CARRI is to help develop and then share critical paths that any community or region may take to strengthen its ability to prepare for, respond to, and rapidly recover from significant man-made or natural disasters with minimal downtime to basic community, government and business services. When a community is truly resilient it should be able to avoid the cascading system failures to help minimize any disaster's disruption to everyday life and the local economy. A resilient community is not only prepared to help prevent or minimize the loss or damage to life, property and the environment, but also it has the ability to quickly return citizens to work, reopen businesses, and restore other essential services needed for a full and swift economic recovery". (ORNL, Community & Regional Resilience Initiative (CARRI). February 6, 2008)
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