California State University, Long Beach organized and facilitated a campus-community Resilience Charrette in 2018, based on the Community Resilience Building workshop format. This report outlines the process and summary of […]

This resource details general background about climate resilience. Second Nature defines resilience as the ability of a system or community to survive disruption and to anticipate, adapt, and flourish in […]

This quadrant is a tool to help higher education institutions organize potential activities to increase resilience. It can help institutions decide what resilience initiatives to include in a new or […]

<<Back to Resilience Home This page contains a list of tools and resources to aid institutions in leading resilience workshops and creating plans to increase their own resilience.   Campus […]

This resource contains information on engaging stakeholders during the resilience assessment and planning process. Stakeholders from the campus and the surrounding community are essential to the establishment and maintenance of […]

A core component of completing a Resilience Assessment is identifying initial indicators to assess resilience and measure progress over time. Indicators are features or characteristics of the campus and/or community […]

This resource contains information on identifying an institution’s strengths, assets, and vulnerabilities as part of the resilience assessment and planning process. Second Nature recommends beginning the resilience assessment by identifying […]

Envisioning future scenarios can aid campuses in identifying common ground between various stakeholders and creating a positive vision of the future. This can be an important part of completing a […]

<<Back to Resilience Home What is the Campus-Community Resilience Assessment? The resilience assessment is meant to provide a baseline of current resilience activities on campus and in the community, develop […]

<<Back to Planning for Resilience Campus Resilience Plans The following campuses have completed exemplary plans to increase their ability to adapt to climate change. Campuses in the midst of creating […]

The Resilience Goal Setting Worksheet is a tool to help campuses define resilience goals, strategies for implementation, and metrics for measurement. This can be used when campuses have completed the Resilience […]

<<Back to Additional Resilience Tools and Resources The Campus Evaluation of Resilience Dimensions is a checklist to help schools assess the five dimensions of resilience, and complete the Resilience Assessment […]