Infrastructure

Community Wildfire Risk Reduction Toolkit

Information and resources for communities on wildfire issues are fragmented, incompatible and thus hard to locate or combine into effective solutions. The Community Wildfire Risk Reduction Toolkit will assemble in one place everything communities with different wildfire risks (mountains and forests, mixed grassland, prairies and so on) need to reduce their risk at the property, neighborhood and landscape scales. It will include a new scorecard for wildfire risk and integrate other assessments within this, an action planner, and extensive advisory material and references on all aspects of mitigating risk. Eventually it may link to contractors and service providers who can help with risk mitigation.

What we need

• Expertise on all aspects of wildfire risk reduction: data and analysis, environmental management, civil engineering, community engagement, business engagement, insurance and financing.
• Authors.
• Reviewers.
• Communities to test and evaluate what we create.

Successes

• Validation of need.
• Structure and contents of Version 1 agreed, and now being drafted.
• Initial group of volunteer experts and writers assembled.
• Engagement from CalFire.
• Engagement from several communities interested in being users.

Scorecard Action Guide

The UN City Disaster Resilience Scorecard, authored by ARISE-US, has been used by over 350 cities around the world to baseline their current resilience, and the likely impact of climate change. However, baselines do not by themselves tell users how to move forward: what remedial actions to take, priorities, how to get funding, governance structures, integration with existing plans, how to engage communities, and so on. The Action Guide is designed to address that gap.

What we need

• Expertise on all aspects of disaster risk reduction and planning, especially planners, finance specialists and community engagement specialists.
• Authors.
• Reviewers.
• Communities to test and evaluate what we create.

Successes

• Validation of need via a survey of 230 cities and via detailed comments from MCR2030 practitioners.
• Commitment from Arizona State University to repeat the survey annually.
• Structure and contents of Version 1 agreed, and now being drafted.
• Initial group of volunteer experts and writers assembled.
• Engagement from several communities interested in being users.

UNDRR Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Cities

Coastal Communities Risk Management Toolkit

In partnership with Waterfront Alliance and World Ocean Council, a risk management toolkit for coastal communities and cities.

ARISE-US is partnering with Waterfront Alliance (WA) to create a scorecard assessment tool for coastal communities to assess their resilience. The tool builds on the very successful series of scorecards created by ARISE-US, including the City Scorecard and the Wildfire Scorecard. Building on the "Ten Essentials" from the Sendai Framework, it will also incorporate, as applicable, elements of WA's WEDG standards for waterfront development to create the first truly holistic tool for coastal resilience. As with all ARISE products, the scorecard will be available for free, and also available for for-profit use where desired.

What we need

• Drafters.
• Reviewers.
• Subject matter expertise in coastal resilience: engineering, environment, architecture, community engagement, planning, disaster response, risk management.
• Introductions to potential user communities for piloting.
• Advocacy and promotion of the Scorecard.

Waterfront Alliance announcement (PDF)