Community-Driven Resilience Building
As communities around the globe experience climate-related impacts such as flooding, extreme heat, storm surges, and other extreme weather events, and as these impacts are projected to increase in both severity and frequency, it become imperative that resilience building measure are undertaken to ensure that everyone, and vulnerable populations in particular, are impacted as minimally as possible. Resilience building also helps prevent local emergency response teams from overburden during climate-related impacts and can preserve valuable town resources.
Current Projects Include:
Grant-funded project support for Mount Desert & Tremont focused on planning for warming/cooling centers, peer-to-peer check-in networks, updates to EMA Hazard Mitigation Plan informed by vulnerability assessments, and more.
Support for interested MDI towns in Maine Community Resilience Partnership navigation and grant planning & implementation
Resources:
Tremont Community Resilience Plan (drafted in ACTT-supported process)