Design decisions for buildings and communities are critical to efforts to increase local and regional resiliency. Building designers — of residential, institutional, and commercial structures — should strive to incorporate passive and active survivability concepts into new and renovated structures.
Community planners and developers need to incorporate concepts that increase the capacity to maintain transportation flow, strategies to handle water management, and infrastructure approaches that will withstand a variety of risks.
Pursuing a Resilient Virginia
In this report, we look at the attributes of a resilient community, the various approaches Virginia communities have taken to build resilience, and how we can work together to become more resilient.
Resilience in Rural Communities
For the purposes of this case study, researchers evaluated the status of resiliency in the town of Wytheville, Virginia, along with their overall capacity and resources needed to enhance their readiness for environmental, social, and economic threats.
What Is Climate Equity?
Climate equity makes sure that everyone — despite their race, gender, religion, cultural background, and other factors — has equal access to the benefits of climate protection efforts.
Climate Risks in Lynchburg
Inland flooding is predicted to increase in Lynchburg. Homes and buildings that were not at risk for flooding in the past could now be in harms way. A Lynchburg Rising Information Sheet.
2022 Annual Meeting Slides
Resilient Virginia’s 2022 Annual Meeting, our first hybrid meeting, brought together over 80 colleagues including state and local government and representatives from business, universities, and organizations from around the state.
Pursuing a Resilient Virginia
In this report, we look at the attributes of a resilient community, the various approaches Virginia communities have taken to build resilience, and how we can work together to become more resilient.
Resilience in Rural Communities
For the purposes of this case study, researchers evaluated the status of resiliency in the town of Wytheville, Virginia, along with their overall capacity and resources needed to enhance their readiness for environmental, social, and economic threats.
What Is Climate Equity?
Climate equity makes sure that everyone — despite their race, gender, religion, cultural background, and other factors — has equal access to the benefits of climate protection efforts.
Climate Risks in Lynchburg
Inland flooding is predicted to increase in Lynchburg. Homes and buildings that were not at risk for flooding in the past could now be in harms way. A Lynchburg Rising Information Sheet.
2022 Annual Meeting Slides
Resilient Virginia’s 2022 Annual Meeting, our first hybrid meeting, brought together over 80 colleagues including state and local government and representatives from business, universities, and organizations from around the state.
Integrating Resiliency Language into Existing Plans
Resilient Virginia partnered with University of Virginia’s Environmental Resilience Institute to host a group of student interns who identified resiliency language integrated in existing Comprehensive Plans, Hazard Mitigation Plans, and Master Plans from communities across Virginia and one in New Hampshire.
Challenges and Opportunities to Building Resilience in Virginia’s Communities
Our November 2021 Government listening session included mostly local representatives from across the state, to inform the development of our 2022-2027 strategic plan
Mapping Social Vulnerabilities to Enhance Resilience in Richmond
Differences in social vulnerability across Richmond meant that the city’s resilience plan didn’t work equally well for all neighborhoods. To enhance their plan, the city worked with partners to develop a novel tool—the Climate Equity Index—to document neighborhood vulnerability to climate impacts.
An Inland City Prepares for a Changing Climate
When Blacksburg’s new Sustainability Manager realized that climate change is more than just sea level rise, she led her inland city toward climate resilience by developing a climate vulnerability assessment.