Building community- based resilience

Governments, public sector leaders, and their communities face an increasing number of high-impact events. Severe storms, wildfires, flooding, power outages, and large-scale infrastructure disruptions are growing problems that test the readiness of institutions and the adaptability of communities.

Authors of Case Study

Community Brigades

Living with recurring fire threat in California

Shirley Feldmann-Jensen DPPD, MPH

Lecturer and Program Coordinator, Emergency Services Administration MS Program, California State University, Long Beach

Steven Jensen, DPPD

Professor, Emergency Response Services, California State University, Long Beach

Community Brigades

Living with recurring fire threat in California

Shirley Feldmann-Jensen DPPD, MPH

Lecturer and Program Coordinator, Emergency Services Administration MS Program, California State University, Long Beach

Steven Jensen, DPPD

Professor, Emergency Response Services, California State University, Long Beach

Brent Woodworth, CEO

Los Angeles Emergency Preparedness Foundation

Sara O’Connor, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Geo-SpACE Lab and Geography Department Lecturer, California State University, Long Beach

Juliet Musso, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Management, University of Southern California

 

BeforeDuringAfter.com

Disaster management for small businesses in Texas

Rebecca Davio

Director (retired), Institute for Government Innovation Texas State University

Matthew Pantuso

Senior Grant Coordinator, Institute for Government Innovation Texas State University

 

Florida DOT’s online data viewers

Scenario planning tools for building transportation resilience

Meiqing Li, Ph.D., AICP

Assistant Professor, School of Public Administration University of Central Florida

 

Great Britain’s Emergency Services Network

Providing the first responder community with faster access to more life-saving data

Imtiaz Mufti

Senior External Communications Lead, IBM