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Thesis

Abstract

A community's capacity to prepare, manage, and recover from a disaster determines its level of resilience. The Federal Emergency Management Agency recommends engaging community members in resilience planning to ensure sustainable strategies are implemented. This project uses community-based asset mapping to identify how community participatory methods influence community resilience to combat emergency events. An asset map documents a community’s existing resources, highlighting its strengths. Focus group discussions in the urban area will be conducted to obtain feedback about existing assets and suggestions for additional resources to include. The expected result of this project is to build a comprehensive map of community-based assets that will more accurately reflect resources that are useful to communities in emergency events and to identify areas of opportunity within the community. A collaborative approach to community resilience building can foster relationships between communities and emergency planners to create sustainable preparedness, response, and recovery strategies.

Disciplines

Emergency and Disaster Management | Public Health Education and Promotion

Publication Date

12-1-2024

Language

English

Faculty Mentor of Honors Project

Denise Hernandez

License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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