NAAHDRI Resilience Stories

Hazard mitigation and disaster risk reduction efforts require the commitment of substantial intellectual and financial resources over a long period, which should be guided by constantly improving disaster science with advanced research and a commitment to collaboration with vulnerability-bearers, solution-providers, and each other. 

 

To move toward the goal of reducing hazard losses through evidence-based action, the directors of the hazards and disaster research centers and institutes of North America have allied to advance and marshal disaster research and to inform policy and education. This collection of community-centered risk reduction and resilience success stories illustrates the benefits of investing in people, infrastructure, places, institutions, communities, and their environments. Replicating and scaling similar investments across North America will protect future generations from escalating threats and impacts from natural hazards such as wildfires, hurricanes, heat waves, floods, winter weather, and more. 

 

NAAHDRI is grateful for the editorial support provided by the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR) in creating this series.