(task) Expert Meeting - Improving Power System Resilience in the 21st Century - Resilient America Roundtable

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> Subject: Expert Meeting - Improving Power System Resilience in the 21st Century - Resilient America Roundtable
> Date: September 15, 2014 at 3:18:50 PM EDT
> To: michael.d.mcdonald@mac.com
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> Resilient America Roundtable presents:
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> Expert Meeting: Improving Power System Resilience in the 21st Century"
> National Academy of Sciences building, Washington, DC
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> Since electric power is critical to the provision of a wide range of social services, and to disaster recovery, the objective of this expert meeting is the identify strategies that could be used to improve the resilience, and speed the restoration, of transmission and distribution systems after disasters, as well as assure the continued provision of critical electricity-dependent social services during disasters.
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> Visit the event page to watch the archive video of the panel discussions and learn more about the expert meeting.
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> (Also, view our new Resilient America website: http://resilientamerica.nas.edu.)
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> Resilient America Roundtable
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> The mission of the Resilient America Roundtable is to improve the Nation's resilience in the face of a wide range of disasters.
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> The Roundtable's work is based on four pillars that evolved from key recommendations of the National Academies' 2012 report, "Disaster Resilience - A National Imperative".
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> Understand and communicate risk
> Identify means to measure community resilience
> Share data and information related to hazards, disasters, risk, and resilience
> Build or strengthen partnerships and coalitions within and among communities to build resilience
> Through its convening activities and community based pilot projects, the Resilient America Roundtable will:
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> Understand baseline community resilience conditions
> Engage decision makers in setting goals and milestones in order to improve the decision making processes
> Identify ways that resilience progress is measured in communities
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