Community Disaster Resilience Index
The Community Disaster Resilience Index (CDRI) is a survey-based, multi-level composite-index method for assessing the resilience of communities to disasters, developed in the action-oriented form by Jonas Joerin, Rajib Shaw, Yukiko Takeuchi, and Ramasamy Krishnamurthy and applied in Chennai, India. CDRI decomposes resilience into a hierarchy: a small set of dimensions (commonly physical, social, economic, institutional, and natural), each split into parameters, each measured by several variables scored on a Likert scale. Variables are combined into parameter scores, parameters into dimension scores, and dimensions into an overall index, with weights typically elicited from stakeholders or experts. Unlike secondary-data indices, CDRI is built to be participatory and diagnostic — its purpose is to reveal which dimension of resilience is weakest in a given community so that action can be targeted there.
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- Joerin, J., Shaw, R., Takeuchi, Y., & Krishnamurthy, R. (2012). Action-oriented resilience assessment of communities in Chennai, India. Environmental Hazards, 11(3), 226-241. DOI: 10.1080/17477891.2012.689248 ↗
- Cutter, S. L., Ash, K. D., & Emrich, C. T. (2014). The geographies of community disaster resilience. Global Environmental Change, 29, 65-77. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.08.005 ↗
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ScholarGate. (2026, June 23). Community Disaster Resilience Index (CDRI). ScholarGate. https://scholargate.app/en/disaster-studies/community-disaster-resilience-index
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