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Welcome! We’re so glad you are interested in working with us. The RAFT is a 3-university partnership that supports Virginia localities in their efforts to become more resilient. To build resilience, localities need capacities in a wide variety of areas, such as:

  • Emergency Management
  • Infrastructure
  • Economic Development
  • Floodplain & Stormwater Management
  • Planning & Policy
  • Public Health

Faculty Webinar:

The RAFT held an informational webinar for Faculty on February 5, from 1pm to 2 pm about our initiative to create a multi-university faculty roster that can serve on-the-ground resilience needs of Virginia communities. If you would like to meet our team to see if your work is a good fit to join the roster, please fill out this brief interest survey so we can respond appropriately!

 

You can view the recording for the webinar on YouTube here!

The 3-Step Process:

Step 1: Holistic Assessment of Locality’s Resilience

  • Aims to make a simple, accessible, & objective assessment​ using qualitative & quantitative methods

Step 2: Helping the Community Set Priorities

  • Uses community workshop​s to create a Resilience Action Checklist (RAC)

Step 3: Implementation

  • Implementation Team (partners in community and at university, including relevant faculty affiliates) works to pursue RAC items​

Read More about the RAFT process >>

 

Resilience is the capacity to anticipate threats, reduce a community’s vulnerability, and respond to and recover from hazardous events and chronic stresses.

This website, Task # 92.03 was funded by the Virginia Coastal Zone Management Program at the Department of Environmental Quality through Grant # NA17NOS4190152 
of the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, under the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, as amended. The views expressed
herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA, or any of its subagencies.

This project is currently a partnership between the Institute for Engagement & Negotiation at the University of Virginia, the Institute for Coastal Adaptation and Resilience at Old Dominion University, and the Center for Coastal Studies at Virginia Tech. The former Virginia Coastal Policy Center at the William & Mary Law School participated in this partnership from 2015 until June 2023.

 

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