Document Type
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
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Davila, Cassandra Y., "BUILDING COMMUNITY RESILIENCE THROUGH COMMUNITY PARTICIPATORY ASSET MAPPING FOR EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS" (2024).
Included in
Emergency and Disaster Management Commons, Public Health Education and Promotion Commons