Community resilience planning guide for buildings and infrastructure systems: A playbook

This Playbook is intended to help communities more easily use the Guide and improve community resilience planning by addressing:

• The importance of connecting social and economic goals and services to the built environment (i.e., buildings and infrastructure systems or community lifelines).
• The interdependencies of social and economic functions with the built environment.
• The value and practical ways of planning for recovery – in addition to preparedness, design, mitigation, and emergency response.
• The benefits of a community-scale view of resilience.

The Guide‘s planning process provides a structured yet flexible way to set community-scale goals, align priorities and resources, identify key stakeholders, and develop plans for recovery of community functions. Community resilience planning can inform and integrate other community plans and also reduce conflicting goals between plans.

Find here some of the key take-aways of the playbook:

• The community needs a designated leader who is responsible for tracking, coordinating, and communicating resilience-related efforts.
• Implementation requires continued active outreach and engagement with stakeholders and with the broader community through a variety of mechanisms.
• The adopted community plan needs to be reviewed on a regular basis, consistent with the community‘s planning cycles.
• The resilience plan, including the implementation strategy or specific solutions, may need to be updated.