A number of tools for assessing resilience and for considering climate change and oil vulnerability impacts were reviewed in the development of this paper. Table 2 outlines their strengths, limitations and alignment to the proposed urban assessment framework. None provide a holistic and rapid appraisal of an urban settlement’s resilience to both peak oil and climate change across social, institutional, built and ecological domains, with the exception of the Canadian Centre for Community Renewal (CCCR). [1] However this comprehensive tool is designed for rural communities of less than 30,000 people and the data collection method (approx. 40 resident interviews) is unlikely to be representative enough for assessing the social characteristics of larger urban settlements typically found in New Zealand.
The assessment framework draws characteristics and indicators from these tools/models and can be viewed as an initial scanning process while more detailed tools such as the VIBAT and RECATS models (table 2) can be later used for detailed policy design analysis.
Table 2. Different tools and models relevant to urban resilience
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[1] Canadian Centre for Community Renewal op. sit