{"id":390,"date":"2022-12-12T15:29:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T20:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/ccedarrproject\/?post_type=chapter&p=390"},"modified":"2023-04-25T16:29:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T20:29:34","slug":"planning-for-climate-resilient-communities-in-british-columbia","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/ccedarrproject\/chapter\/planning-for-climate-resilient-communities-in-british-columbia\/","title":{"raw":"Planning for Climate-Resilient Communities in BC","rendered":"Planning for Climate-Resilient Communities in BC"},"content":{"raw":"Adaptation to ecosystem disruption is achieved through developing sustainable ways of living and efficient responses against its impacts. In Chapter 2<\/a>, mitigation and adaptation were explored at the global, national, and provincial levels, however, these concepts\u00a0 are also important to build community-level resilience. Australia\u2019s National Strategy for Disaster Resilience defines a resilient community as \u201cone whose members are connected to one another and work together in ways that enable it to function in the face of stress and trauma\u201d.1<\/a><\/sup> When mitigation and adaptation actively incorporate local and traditional resources, communities are more able to prevent, respond to, and recover from climate-induced outcomes relatively independently, without over-reliance on external support. This creates a self-sustainable system against ecosystem disruption and leads to increased community resilience and decreased vulnerability.<\/span>\r\n\r\nIt is important, however, to recognize that every community has unique characteristics and faces unique challenges. For example, different regions of BC face varying climate risks such as drought, forest fire, or flood, as a result of their distinctive geographies. Similarly, communities also possess different resources including social connectivity, knowledge of local environments, or access to public services, thus making it difficult to lay out a universal climate adaptation model. To address this issue, the Torrens Resilience Institute of Australia has created a basic framework to categorize various community characteristics into physical, procedural, and social enablers of community resilience:<\/span>\r\n