Why Community-level Resilience?
An Instruction Handbook for Community-Level Resilience Building ISET, in collaboration with the American Red Cross, has produced a handbook that is designed for individuals and groups looking to host community resilience-building events. It is easy to read and has plentiful visuals to help organizers communicate resilience-building concepts to the general public. Our goal was to create a handbook that could be used by people hoping to help their communities become more resili
Flood Protection Infrastructure: The Fine Line Between Disaster Generation and Disaster Prevention
By Karen MacClune, Kanmani Venkateswaran, and Rachel Norton Photo by Harris County Flood Control District The illusion of protection Flood protection infrastructure alone does not, and cannot, mitigate flood risk. Every post event flood review (PERC) conducted by the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance contains examples of flood protection infrastructure that has incentivized bad behavior and/or failed catastrophically during floods. The response to these failures is often to al
