Social vulnerability refers to the demographic and socioeconomic factors (such as poverty, lack of access to transportation, and crowded housing) that adversely affect communities that ...
The NIST Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems (Guide) and companion Playbook provides a practical and flexible approach to help all communities ...
This resource shares tools and strategies architects can use in practices to bring about just and equitable outcomes for all members of the communities they serve. These actions take ...
Learn how to make smart climate action decisions at the least cost in this architect's guide on the renovation and adaptive reuse of existing buildings.
The Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) analyzes the impacts of climate and global change in the United States.
AIA’s Climate Action Plan provides architects with actionable steps, tools, and resources to achieve climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and decarbonization in the built enviro ...
The Disaster Assistance Handbook helps architects support communities before and after disaster—creating more resilient, sustainable, equitable, and healthy places and spaces.
Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) supports states, local governments, tribes and territories as they work to reduce their hazard risk. The program aims to ...
This framework helps you document climate hazards that could harm the things you care about, decide which situations you most want to avoid, and come up with workable solutions to reduce ...
The Resilience Design Toolkit is a comprehensive step-by-step process guide for seamlessly incorporating resilient design in your architecture and design projects.