Resilient Richmond Region
PlanRVA Resiliency Planning Overview
PlanRVA is initiating a resiliency planning program to ensure that individuals, communities, businesses, and institutions can survive, adapt, and thrive amidst challenges now and into the future.
Challenges include natural, social, and economic shocks that have both local and regional impacts. Challenges are often grouped into two categories: acute shocks and long-term societal stressors.
As communities are experiencing increased negative impacts of disasters due to climate change, resilience planning efforts are more important than ever.
What is resilience?
PlanRVA defines resilience as the ability of individuals, institutions, and communities to anticipate, respond, adapt, and thrive amidst both short-term events and long-term stressors.
For more information about regional resilience check out this video from the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) below.
Resilience: The New Normal
The PlanRVA Resiliency Planning Process:
The Richmond region supports regional planning and project implementation for a resilient community that...
…engages diverse communities in urban, suburban, and rural settings.
…works with the community to promote education, awareness, and participation.
...maintains, protects, and improves the built and natural infrastructure to cultivate vibrant communities.
…prioritizes social equity by evaluating the impact of policies, programs, and projects on historically marginalized and vulnerable populations.
PlanRVA Resilience Priorities
Using the resilience priorities PlanRVA staff will...
...review and analyze scientific, geographic, and other information related to each priority to provide context, best practices, and direction for the planning process.
...use the priorities for project evaluation and prioritization. Projects will be prioritized in part based on their ability to improve resilience in the region.
...analyze the impacts on historically marginalized and socially vulnerable populations as part of the planning and project evaluation process as these populations feel the impacts of resilience challenges most acutely.
