Building forward: Strategic community resilience

The need for community resilience continues to gain prominence, and is reflected in a broad array of supporting efforts including measurement methodologies, system standards, governance and policy, and significant private efforts. However, communities continue to experience gaps and struggle to foster a strategic path for the long-term sustainable community resilience. Creating resilience at the community level requires a systematic effort, which can be accomplished via the design of a cohesive and opportunity-focused toolkit for cities and regions. Application of this toolkit can then drive measurable gains in community level resilience. This paper describes how notable available community level applications can be strategically combined to implement community resilience.