Definitions[edit | edit source]
Community resilience hubs are locally identified and community-serving facilities that provide residents year-round access to support resources. During extreme weather, they can reduce the burden on emergency response teams by supplying power before, during, and after grid outages through onsite energy systems. [Definition from U.S. Department of Energy, Better Buildings Solution Center -- https://betterbuildingssolutioncenter.energy.gov/webinars/shelter-storm-powering-community-resilience-hubs. Note: A 2022 Better Buildings Webinar, linked at this URL, includes discussions from Florida and New Mexico, plus National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Staff.]
- Definition from Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN) -- https://www.usdn.org/resilience-hubs.html
Case studies[edit | edit source]
Government facilities as community resilience hubs[edit | edit source]
- Ann Arbor, Michigan and Fulton County, Georgia: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/870ac0b1641c48f3aede91626a2c557a
- Los Angeles, California, study for heat-emergency events. https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CEMO-Comprehensive-Project-Report.pdf
School, college, and university facilities as community resilience hubs[edit | edit source]
- Brookings Institution 2015 report about schools as community hubs. https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Horn-Freeland-Paper-FINAL.pdf
- Springer open access book, 2023, about Schools as community hubs. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-9972-7
- Toledo, Ohio, public schools 2022-23 report about Schools as Community Hubs. https://www.tps.org/community/community_hubs
State and local government collaborations[edit | edit source]
- Duluth, Minnesota case study. Epstein, Gabe, 2023, Strengthening a Minnesota Community with Solar and Resilience, report for Clean Energy States Alliance, https://www.cesa.org/resource-library/resource/minnesota-case-study/
Literature[edit | edit source]
- DiFrancesco, Sofia, February 2023, Building Community Resilience -- Asset-Based Strategies to Increase the Adaptive Capacities of Vulnerable Communities through Implementation of Resilience Hubs, ArcGIS Playbook, https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/870ac0b1641c48f3aede91626a2c557a
- District of Columbia Law: https://doee.dc.gov/service/community-resilience-hubs
- Global Disaster Preparedness Center, Urban Community Resilience Toolkits [Web page retrieved August 2023], https://preparecenter.org/toolkit/urban-community-resilience-toolkits/
- Oregon Law: https://www.orhubs.org/
- Rocky Mountain Institute blog about Community Resilience Hubs in Texas, 2021: https://rmi.org/community-resilience-hubs/
Related Topics[edit | edit source]
- Disaster preparedness
- Environmental justice activities
- Equity Crowd Investing
- Food access
- Other services fulfilling community needs
- Public Purpose Microgrids
