Local Authorities Policy Brief

The emBRACE project explored community resilience in the context of a range of natural hazards that occur across Europe. Key project outputs include a unified framework for understanding community disaster resilience in European communities and a set of generic indicators and guidelines for assessing resilience. The components found to underpin community resilience hold specific relevance for local and municipal authorities, as they include a range of factors for which these institutions may bear statutory responsibilities, or at least a community expectation, for their delivery. These include: community access to a diversity of resources and

capacities (e.g. socio-political, financial, physical, human); the capability to act effectively in the mitigation of risks and impacts; mutual learning from experience; collaboration; and the need to understand local contexts.

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EU Project emBRACE: Policy Brief Series, Policy brief 8.6: A focus on the role of Local and Municipal Authorities in building capabilities and capacities for Community Disaster Resilience

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