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    "identifier": "6414E3204E0696CBE0531A570681025E1890",
    "accessLevel": "public",
    "contactPoint": {
        "hasEmail": "mailto:[email protected]",
        "fn": "Jennifer Helgeson"
    },
    "programCode": [
        "006:045"
    ],
    "landingPage": "https:\/\/data.nist.gov\/od\/id\/6414E3204E0696CBE0531A570681025E1890",
    "title": "EDGe$ (Economic Decision Guide Software) Tool  (Beta)",
    "description": "The EDGe$ Tool brings to your fingertips a powerful technique for selecting cost-effective community resilience projects. This decision support software is designed to support those engaged in community-level resilience planning, including community planners and resilience officers, as well as economic development, budget, and public works officials. It 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 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. The 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$ uses the approach seen in The NIST \"Community Resilience Economic Decision Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems\" https:\/\/doi.org\/10.6028\/NIST.SP.1197",
    "language": [
        "en"
    ],
    "distribution": [
        {
            "accessURL": "https:\/\/doi.org\/10.18434\/T4\/1423120",
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            "description": "DOI Access for EDGe$ (Economic Decision Guide Software) Tool",
            "title": "DOI Access for EDGe$ (Economic Decision Guide Software) Tool"
        }
    ],
    "bureauCode": [
        "006:55"
    ],
    "modified": "2018-01-08 00:00:00",
    "publisher": {
        "@type": "org:Organization",
        "name": "National Institute of Standards and Technology"
    },
    "theme": [
        "Resilience:Community resilience"
    ],
    "keyword": [
        "Benefit-cost analysis",
        "buildings",
        "communities",
        "constructed facilities",
        "resilience",
        "economic analysis",
        "economic decision tool",
        "life-cycle costing",
        "resilience dividend",
        "software"
    ]
}