Moving the Needle Towards Resilient Communities: A Field Guide for Equitable, Community-Led Resilience Planning
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Description
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. [from Taylor & Francis]
ISBN
9781003596233
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003596233
Publication Date
2026
Publisher
Routledge
City
New York
Keywords
Resilience, RAFT, Community initiative, Equity, Holistic assessment
Disciplines
International Relations | Public Policy | Sustainability
Recommended Citation
Yusuf, Juita-Elena (Wie); Cobb, Tanya Denckla; Gladfelter, Sierra; and Andrews, Elizabeth, "Moving the Needle Towards Resilient Communities: A Field Guide for Equitable, Community-Led Resilience Planning" (2026). School of Public Service Faculty Books. 21.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/publicservice_books/21