Building Resilience Through Plan Integration
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Learning Outcomes
- Collaborate across local agencies and departments to collect data and evaluate the impact of local plans on community resilience.
- Utilize assessments to uncover inconsistencies between plans and policies, build cohesion, and improve long-term resiliency.
- Discover how the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard is being used with a wide array of natural hazards (including flooding, drought, and urban heat) in communities of all capacities.
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Communities often are overwhelmed by a plethora of inconsistent plans that lack the integration needed to increase resiliency. They now have access to a collaborative tool for evaluating spatial plans.
The Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard is an in-depth integration standard that identifies and resolves inconsistencies between plans that prevent substantive resilience-building. Based on the experience of communities across the United States, the Scorecard is a powerful tool for building capacity in resource-constrained communities. Presenters discuss its application in communities that lack technical capacity and funding resources to build resilience through plan integration.
They also highlight how a spatial approach to plan integration can resolve the perennial problem of too many plans but too little implementation. They identify discrete methods for collaborating across departments to gather plans, evaluate policies, and spatially assess those policies in the context of a defined local geography.
Discover how the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard is utilized for hazards and climate-change impacts beyond flooding — such as urban heat and drought — and as a capacity-building tool for a wide array of community types.