Implementing the Steps to Resilience: A Practitioner's Guide

Foundational information to consider before you begin your resilience journey.

Coordinate with the community champions to assemble a planning team and establish goals for the project.

Evaluate community assets and their exposure to climate-related hazards.

Evaluate the vulnerability of community assets by enumerating qualities of sensitivity and adaptive capacity.

List options to reduce the greatest climate-related vulnerabilities and risks to vulnerable populations and community assets.

Design an implementation plan for the strategies that are mostly likely to reduce vulnerability and risk.

Implement and communicate the plan. Identify funding sources. Monitor. Iterate.