Friday, April 29, 2016
Rockefeller Foundation Spearheads Resilience Strategy in Colorado
City of Boulder officials are taking a unique approach to planning for future natural disasters and challenges.
The city unveiled its first-ever resilience strategy Thursday. The document builds off wildfire and flood plans to show how hazards are interlinked—and how they impact businesses and low-income people.
The resilience strategy is a new approach to city planning spearheaded by the Rockefeller Foundation. Michael Berkowitz, who heads up the 100 Resilient Cities Project, said there are opportunities to leverage dollars spent on climate action plans to have other net benefits—like public health...