{"id":133,"date":"2024-08-25T11:45:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T17:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/transform\/?p=133"},"modified":"2026-05-27T15:23:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T21:23:57","slug":"building-resilience-strategies-in-rural-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/transform\/2024\/08\/25\/building-resilience-strategies-in-rural-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Building resilience strategies in rural communities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full wp-image-135\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1300\" height=\"1015\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/transform\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/887\/2024\/08\/HCRITeamPhoto.jpg\" alt=\"A group of persons present a table top display\" class=\"wp-image-135\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The HCRI team. From left to right: Ismaeel Mujahid, Mike Maxfield, Prithila Purkayastha, Alex Iturriria. Brittany Brand and Kyle Peterson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Community resilience is the capacity of individuals, communities, institutions, businesses and systems to thrive no matter what kinds of chronic stresses and acute shocks they experience. Comprehensive resilience assessments play a vital role in helping communities understand risk profiles, implement efficient mitigation strategies with limited resources, and recover with the future in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Developing resilience measurements and strategies that reduce risk, enhance economic resilience and address the most pressing needs of communities is a national priority. However, rural communities often lack capacity and expertise to build collaborative resilience strategies, and existing resilience assessment frameworks fail to holistically assess rural contexts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To address these challenges, we are creating a university-community partnership model to conduct a resilience assessment and strategy with rural communities. Research questions include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What engagement strategies are most effective at motivating holistic resilience planning and collaborative action?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Does our whole-community approach improve collaboration across sectors?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our \u201cBuilding Resilient Communities\u201d approach is adapted from the City Resilience Index (CRI), with its strengths lying in its rural focus, customizability, and emphasis on solutions and strategy-building moving forward. Team members include Department of Geoscience faculty, HCRI researchers, and an interdisciplinary group of Boise State University students from the Building Resilient Communities VIP course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Spring 2024, we reviewed qualitative data methods relevant to rural communities, modified the CRI question set, and created a customizable framework using twelve \u201cCharacteristics of Resilient Communities.\u201d Next, we\u2019ll perform a resilience assessment of Valley County, Idaho, which faces concerns of balancing environmental and economic sustainability while ensuring residents have every opportunity to thrive (housing, health, social resources, etc).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fall 2024 actions include stakeholder relationship building, reviewing Valley County plans and initiatives, and a pre-assessment workshop at the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/wcmedc.org\/economic-summit\/\">Valley County Economic Summit<\/a>. We will then conduct an in-depth resilience assessment through Spring 2025, using cross-sector focus groups and a \u201cwhole community\u201d solutions-focused workshop. The final outcome is a prioritized action list (resilience strategy) tied to resources and student-led projects to support efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investigators:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dr. Brittany Brand, Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences and Director of Hazard and Climate Resilience Institute<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Zachary Provant, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Hazard and Climate Resilience Institute<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kyle Peterson, MPH, Research Associate, Hazard and Climate Resilience Institute<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prithila Purkayastha, PhD student, Department of Geosciences and Hazard and Climate Resilience Institute<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Project Stakeholders \/ Collaborators (List will grow over the Fall 2024 Semester):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>West Central Mountains Economic Development Council<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Valley County Commissioners<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Valley County Emergency Management<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community resilience is the capacity of individuals, communities, institutions, businesses and systems to thrive no&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":358,"featured_media":137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-track-1"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.2 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - 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