EDGe$ (Economic Decision Guide Software) Online Tool, Version 1.0
Designed to support community-level resilience planning, the powerful online EDGe$ Tool, Version 1.0 assists in selecting cost-effective community resilience projects. Produced by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the EDGe$ platform-independent app can help community planners and resilience officers, as well as economic development, budget, and public works officials.
EDGe$ provides a standard economic methodology for evaluating investment decisions required to improve the ability of communities to adapt to, withstand, and quickly recover from natural, technology, and human-caused disruptive events. The tool helps the user to identify and compare the relevant present and future resilience costs and benefits associated with new capital investment versus maintaining a community?s status-quo. Benefits include cost savings and damage loss avoidance because enhancing resilience on a community scale creates value, including co-benefits, even if a hazard event does not strike.
EDGe$ is based on the process found in NIST?s Community Resilience Economic Decision Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems (EDG). The EDG and EDGe$ can be used as standalone tools, but are designed as part of a more comprehensive planning process and in combination with the NIST Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems.
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DOI Access for EDGe$ (Economic Decision Guide Software) Online Tool, Version 1.0
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EDGe$ (Economic Decision Guide Software) Online Tool
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| description | Designed to support community-level resilience planning, the powerful online EDGe$ Tool, Version 1.0 assists in selecting cost-effective community resilience projects. Produced by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the EDGe$ platform-independent app can help community planners and resilience officers, as well as economic development, budget, and public works officials. EDGe$ provides a standard economic methodology for evaluating investment decisions required to improve the ability of communities to adapt to, withstand, and quickly recover from natural, technology, and human-caused disruptive events. The tool helps the user to identify and compare the relevant present and future resilience costs and benefits associated with new capital investment versus maintaining a community?s status-quo. Benefits include cost savings and damage loss avoidance because enhancing resilience on a community scale creates value, including co-benefits, even if a hazard event does not strike. EDGe$ is based on the process found in NIST?s Community Resilience Economic Decision Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems (EDG). The EDG and EDGe$ can be used as standalone tools, but are designed as part of a more comprehensive planning process and in combination with the NIST Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems. |
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| identifier | ark:/88434/mds2-2185 |
| issued | 2020-04-08 |
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| landingPage | https://edges.nist.gov |
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| license | https://www.nist.gov/open/license |
| modified | 2020-02-20 00:00:00 |
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"https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.1197",
"https://www.nist.gov/topics/community-resilience/planning-guide"
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| rights | NIST-developed software is expressly provided "AS IS." NIST MAKES NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, IN FACT OR ARISING BY OPERATION OF LAW, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE |
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| title | EDGe$ (Economic Decision Guide Software) Online Tool, Version 1.0 |
