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90 Tul. L. Rev. 35 (2015-2016)
Rating the Cities: Constructing a City Resilience Index for Assessing the Effect of State and Local Laws on Long-Term Recovery from Crisis and Disaster

handle is hein.journals/tulr90 and id is 55 raw text is: Rating the Cities: Constructing a City Resilience Index for Assessing the Effect of State and Local Laws on Long-Term Recovery from Crisis and Disaster John Travis Marshall* Supertorm Sandy, the 2008 Iowa floods, and Huricanes Katrna and Rita all supply recent reminders that US. cities can no longer adopt an ad hoc approach to thrats presented by climate change and natural hazards The stories detailing long-term recovery from these disasters underscore that federal, state, and local governments are struggling to appreciate the legal tools and institutions necessary to implement the large-scale inrstructure, housing, and community development programs that climate change and more frequent natural disasters demand This Article calls for development of a tool allowing succinct evaluation of the range of community capacities that will figzur critically in the implementation of long-term disaster recovery efforts On completion, tis assessment tool will provide a snapshot of a local government's resiliency-its capacity to address and bounce back from disaster-related challenges. Building on recent environmental, land use, and local government law scholarsp, this Article jecommends creation of, and outlines several key indicators for, a City Resilience Index (CRI). The CR! evaluates cities'legal resoures, focusing on whether a local government possesses the necessary legal and institutional toolkit to pursue redevelopment imtiatives essential to managing the challenges presented by natural hazards and climate change. I. INTRODUCTION .......................................................................... 36 II. THE CRI AS A PREVENTIVE METROPOLITAN POLICY FOR AMERICAN CITIES ..................................................................... 44 A. An Index Is a Potentially Valuable Tool for Improving Long-Term Urban Recovery ......................... 44 B. Selecting indicators for Building an Effectve City Resilience Index ............................................................... 47 * © 2015 John Travis Marshall. Assistant Professor of Law and Associate Director of the Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth, Georgia State University College of Law; J.D., 1997, University of Florida College of Law; M.A., 1994, University of Texas at Austin; B.A., 1990, University of Notre Dame. The author thanks in particular his Georgia State College of Law colleague Ryan Rowberry for collaborating on an earlier article exploring creation of an index to assess the resilience of cities' laws and legal institutions. Special thanks also go to Ray Brescia, Albany Law School, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Stetson College of Law, and Heather Gerken, Yale Law School, for their general encouragement to use indices to evaluate policy. The author is also grateful for the research assistance of Peter Watson. This research would not have been possible without summer research support from Dean Steven Kaminshine and the Georgia State University College of Law. The author served as project manager and counsel with the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority from 2007 to 2011. The views expressed in this Article are, of course, the author's own.

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