Moving the Needle Towards Resilient Communities
A Field Guide for Equitable, Community-Led Resilience Planning
Elizabeth Andrews author Juita-Elena Yusuf author Tanya Denckla Cobb author Sierra Gladfelter author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:28th Jun '26
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
This field guide offers practical guidance for readers to initiate and engage in resilience planning with their communities in a structured, deliberative way that emphasizes equity.
The contents revolve around lessons learned from The Resilience Adaptation Feasibility Tool (RAFT) on-the-ground community initiative to advance resilience across communities in Virginia. Chapters provide background about resilience planning; a starting point for conducting holistic assessment of a community’s resilience with a focus on equity; recommendations for establishing an infrastructure for long- term commitment to resilience; and suggestions for identifying and planning activities and projects to build momentum for achieving resilience outcomes.
The format offers an easy read for non-technical audiences such as community planners, community leaders, or nonprofit agency staff to quickly and efficiently get the guidance they need for community-based, equity-focused resilience planning.
This book is an essential resource for resilience professionals. Drawing on years of experience and grounded in the diverse coastal Virginia region, it provides an accessible and actionable framework for equitable resilience planning to improve a community’s approach to extreme weather and compounding challenges.
Michelle Covi, Coastal Resilience DOD Liaison, Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant, University of Georgia
Anchored by earned trust in the community-led co-production model, and the objective technical expertise of The RAFT team, this field guide draws upon evolutionary best practices in building equitable environmental, social, and economic resilience across vulnerable communities. Building on years of work with coastal localities across a wide range of stakeholders - unique to each - this process ensures authentic unbiased collaboration, essential for a long-term structured planning and adaptive outcomes for use by local and regional communities and governments.
Ann C. Phillips, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (Ret.), former Special Assistant to the Governor for Coastal Adaptation and Protection, Commonwealth of Virginia
ISBN: 9781032979328
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 500g
164 pages