Community Resilience Planning with GIS

Planners have the responsibility to prepare for and mitigate challenges from acute shocks and chronic stresses. Incorporating resilience strategies into designs helps communities deal with acute shocks that require emergency management such as pandemics and natural disasters and chronic stresses including homelessness, lack of economic opportunity, aging infrastructure, or poor transit systems. The convergence of many of these factors can affect a community's potential to prosper, grow, and provide a safe and healthy place for all residents to thrive. Since location is a factor in every aspect of resilience planning, GIS is a mission-critical system in developing these strategies. GIS provides tools that local government staff can use to create and analyze designs, collaborate with stakeholders, and justify policies that create community resilience in both the short and long term.

Assess conservation & preservation activities

The ArcGIS platform provides an easy and standardized way to inventory, visualize, and assess conservation activities in a community, including prioritizing open spaces, preserving historic neighborhoods, and restoring wetlands.

Manage acute shocks and chronic stresses

At the core of a community's resilience is its ability to mitigate and recover from both acute shocks and chronic stresses. ArcGIS provides the platform to manage these short- and long-term incidents with multiple departments and stakeholders to ensure the development of a resilient community.

Support economic sustainability planning

Sustainable economic development and growth are the goals of every resilient community. Use ArcGIS to generate market analysis and understand a neighborhood's needs and workforce to better support business recruitment, retention, and expansion efforts.

Promote social equity and healthy communities

The roles of today's planning professional continue to expand into policy development. Use the powerful web-based tools in ArcGIS to responsibly place resources and assets throughout a community and promote a more socially equitable and healthy environment for residents.

Remediate blight and stabilize neighborhoods

Planners must understand where blight is occurring and the neighborhoods at risk to create more resilient communities. Use GIS to identify and analyze the demographics and socioeconomic characteristics of neighborhoods to justify blight remediation plans.

Establish key metrics for transparency

Getting buy-in from administrators, stakeholders, and residents is a must when establishing plans to make communities more resilient. Use ArcGIS to get the open data platform you need to transparently and effectively inform and promote resilience initiatives for neighborhoods.

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A data-driven approach to affordable housing

GIS supports affordable housing initiatives and economic mobility strategies that benefit the entire community.

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City of Auburn green infrastructure plan

City of Auburn, Alabama, explains what green infrastructure means along with the purpose and objective of its green infrastructure master plan.

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Products & solutions for resilience planning

ArcGIS Online

Work with smart, data-driven styles and intuitive analysis tools that deliver location intelligence.

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ArcGIS Pro

This next generation desktop GIS supports data visualization, advanced analysis, and authoritative data maintenance.

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ArcGIS StoryMaps

Tell remarkable stories with maps that inform and inspire. Illustrate spatial relationships and add visual appeal and credibility to ideas.

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ArcGIS Business Analyst

Combine demographic, lifestyle, and census data with analytics to enhance decisions for market planning, site selection, and segmentation.

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ArcGIS Urban & Policy Validation Application

ArcGIS Urban and the Policy Validation App create a 3D experience designed to drive policy and improve urban planning and decision-making.

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ArcGIS Survey123

A complete, formcentric solution for creating, sharing, and analyzing surveys. Collect data via web or mobile devices; analyze results quickly.

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Resilience Planning

Assess conservation & preservation activities

Manage acute shocks and chronic stresses

Support economic sustainability planning

Promote social equity and healthy communities

Remediate blight and stabilize neighborhoods

Establish key metrics for transparency

Driving sustainable economic restoration

A data-driven approach to affordable housing

Resilient by design

City of Auburn green infrastructure plan

Products & solutions for resilience planning

ArcGIS Online

ArcGIS Pro

ArcGIS StoryMaps

ArcGIS Business Analyst

ArcGIS Urban & Policy Validation Application

ArcGIS Survey123

ArcGIS Solutions

Urban and community planning initiatives

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Resilience Planning

Economic Restoration

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