FAU’s Home & High Water S1 E2. Neighborhood Climate Resilience, Part 2: “To Endure And Survive”

To better understand and document the resilience of a particular community, we need more complex and individualized information at the local level. In Part 2, we focus on what our research team discovered about the local landscape when they began to collect information about community resilience at the neighborhood scale.

Additional Resources:

• Read Bridget Huston’s Master’s Thesis: “Understanding Climate Resilience to Environmental Hazards: How A Broward County Community Assessment Helps To Complete The Picture”

• Documentary Photo Story created by residents at the Estates of Fort Lauderdale during a workshop facilitated by CES

• Watch a short video introducing CES’s Neighborhood Resilience Research Project

• Learn more about coastal resilience research at FAU’s CES

• Learn more about FAU’s CES Neighborhood Resilience Mapping research project

Bridget Huston
CES Graduate Research Assistant

Leslie Kevles
Resident at the Estates of Fort Lauderdale

Jan Booher
Heron Bridge Education, LLC

Dr. Colin Polsky
CES Director