Comprehensive Resilience Plans Help Governments Target Investments to Address Disaster Risks

Collected resources on planning for future threats and changing conditions

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Comprehensive Resilience Plans Help Governments Target Investments to Address Disaster Risks
In a large room, people with name tags on their shirts stand around a long table looking at a map. In the background, people sit and stand at other tables.
Attendees at a September 2022 flood symposium in West Virginia view maps highlighting areas at risk of future flooding. Participants included federal, state, and local flood experts; officials from West Virginia’s State Resiliency Office; and representatives from Pew who explored the causes of flooding in the state and strategies for a new statewide resilience plan.
The Pew Charitable Trusts

Planning that is proactive, collaborative, and comprehensive can help communities build a collective vision for resilience and identify cost-effective programs and solutions to achieve that vision. The most successful resilience plans leverage forward-looking science to project extreme disaster risks; are developed through close partnerships among governments, community leaders, residents, businesses, and other stakeholders; and are updated at regular intervals to help maximize and appropriately direct available public resources.

The resources collected here reflect the efforts of The Pew Charitable Trusts, which works with planning professionals across the U.S. to help governments at all levels use best practices in data science, project and program design, and stakeholder engagement to take strategic and targeted action toward a more resilient future.

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