Browse by Tag: Resilience
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CEDS Spotlight: Southern Alleghenies Planning and Development Commission
The Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) has the potential to be a true road map that brings together many voices from your region to form a common vision for economic prosperity and resilience. Through the CEDS Spotlight case studies series,...
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Recent CEDS Training Presentation Materials Now Available
On April 12, the NADO Research Foundation delivered a CEDS training to executive directors and planning staff of Kentucky’s 15 Area Development Districts (http://www NULL.kcadd NULL.org/). Topics covered in the training included: What is the CEDS? Changes to CEDS –...
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Stronger CEDS, Stronger Regions: Resource Archive
(https://www NULL.cedscentral NULL.com) CEDS Central (http://www NULL.cedscentral NULL.com) now serves as the Resource and Training Archive for materials developed by the NADO Research Foundation (NADO RF) as part of its Stronger CEDS, Stronger Region program, funded by the U.S. Economic...
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NADO Research Foundation to Host Upcoming Webinar on Economic Diversification in Coal-Reliant Regions
The decline of the coal industry is having major ramifications in communities and regions across the country that have been historically reliant upon this energy source for jobs, a tax base, and sense of identity. In light of these changes,...
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Planning for a More Resilient Future: A Guide to Regional Approaches
This report covers the rapidly-growing body of research on resilience, describing the main ideas that are driving policy and practice across the country and examining current thinking on regional and economic resilience.
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Buyouts and Relocation
Boonslick Regional Planning Commission (BCRP) Following the devastating Midwest floods of 1993, Missouri’s Boonslick Regional Planning Commission (BRPC) (http://boonslick NULL.org/) established itself as a leader in innovative disaster recovery strategies by successfully relocating two communities – Rhineland and Winfield –...
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Incorporating Resilience into the CEDS
New CEDS Content Guidelines: The Economic Development Administration (EDA) recently released new CEDS Content Guidelines (http://www NULL.eda NULL.gov/ceds/) as part of updated federal regulations that went into effect in early 2015. The content guidelines provide a clear, streamlined framework...
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Materials Available from “Making Resilience the New Normal” Convening (Washington, DC)
Across the country, local and regional agencies are finding new ways of building resilience through their day-to-day decisions. By applying a new lens to not only disaster recovery but also to planning, zoning, capital investment, lending, and other routine services,...
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Webinar Recording and Slides: “Building Economic Resilience in Your Community: Linking Economic Development and Hazard Mitigation Planning”
Hazard mitigation and economic development activities are both critical to the long-term prosperity of regions and communities, but they are often conducted separately. As a result, hazard mitigation plans and economic development strategies can be disconnected, making it difficult to...
