Comprehensive Resilience Plans Help Governments Target Investments to Address Disaster Risks

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.