Community Resilience
As climate change increases the frequency of flooding, heat waves, and other extreme weather events, community networks will play an increasingly important role in disaster response and recovery, serving as trusted messengers, and environmental stewards, while also helping to build social cohesion. This kind of community resilience can also improve social equity, economic stability, and environmental sustainability. Our work focuses on the role of community-based organizations in building local climate resilience, and how municipalities and CBOs can better collaborate.
Active Projects
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After the Flood: How Local Governments Are Reimagining Buyout Programs
The first snapshot in a series looking at how local and regional governments are designing voluntary floodplain buyout programs to be community-led, socially-integrated, and ecologically-driven. From New Jersey's Blue Acres to King County's Flood Control District. It surfaces the open questions every program still has to answer: who gets left behind, what happens to the land, and how to know if a buyout is reaching the people who need it most.
Contact: Kaitlin Strange
Themes: Climate Informed Land Use Policy, Coastal Ecosystems, Community Resilience
