Community resilience is key for increasing a community’s capacity to prepare for, respond to, and adapt to life-changing events. Earth Science has a considerable role to play in contributing to community resilience, but there are still some challenges that must be overcome to improve how Earth Science data supports better decision-making for Community resilience. This session is organized by the Community Resilience cluster of ESIP.
This 90-minute workshop session will kick off with a brief overview of the Community Resilience cluster’s problem statement, focusing on identified challenges that earth science data practitioners may encounter while attempting to support community resilience. These challenges include: inequity, data ethics and governance, scale mismatch, and meeting data needs. Next, cluster participants will lead breakout groups with meeting participants to discuss potential recommendations and solutions for addressing the challenges. This working session is designed to collect input and evaluate the recommendations that the Community Resilience cluster has already put forward in order to fill in any gaps about promising approaches and solutions to include. We also seek ideas on how to implement the recommendations, as well as how we might engage and work with other ESIP clusters to do so.
To help you prepare, we'd like to draw your attention to a couple of key resources:
During the session, we'll be reflecting on these questions:
- Could you give an example of a community that you’re a part of where community resilience might be relevant?
- How do communities become more resilient?
- What is the relationship of Earth Science to Community Resilience?
- What are challenges for utilizing Earth Science to help support Community Resilience?
- What are your recommendations for addressing some of these challenges?
- Is community resilience something that ESIP should be addressing?
We will also be participating in the ESIP poster session:
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