{"679851":{"#nid":"679851","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Building Toward Community-Owned Resilience Hubs","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResilience hubs are trusted, community-serving facilities designed to support residents and coordinate communication and resources in everyday life; and before, during, and after disruptions. Environmental disruptions such as hurricane damage, coastal erosion, flood damage, extreme heat, and wildfire destruction are occurring more frequently and with greater economic costs.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn November 21, 2024, a team from Georgia Tech met with nine other organizations at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/places\/south-carolina-penn-center.htm\u0022\u003EPenn Center\u003C\/a\u003E on St. Helena Island in South Carolina to work towards developing targeted resilience strategies to cope with environmental disaster events. More specifically, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.penncenter.com\/\u0022\u003EPenn Center\u003C\/a\u003E workshop\u2019s overall goal was the co-creation of paths toward building community-led and -engaged, scientifically supported resilience hubs, addressing the unique challenges faced by coastal and inland vulnerable communities in the Southeastern United States.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA common definition of community resilience is \u201cthe sustained ability of a community to use available resources to respond to, withstand, and recover from adverse situations.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPart of the process to build these action research partnerships and resilience plans is to bring together community leaders, government representatives, and an interdisciplinary team of researchers\u2014many of whom are from Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech researchers bring expertise from science, engineering, design, humanities, and social sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs part of the workshop, 15 \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/beaufort-county\/news\/penn-center-georgia-tech-st-helena-beaufort\/article_09132312-c796-11ef-b461-bf701014c3f0.html\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech architecture students presented their design models\u003C\/a\u003E for a multipurpose 20,000 square-foot building designed for the Penn Center campus which is steeped in African American history.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESome of the researchers at Georgia Tech attending the workshop and supporting the development of Southeastern community-focused resilience strategies included:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESof\u00eda P\u00e9rez-Guzm\u00e1n, assistant professor in the School of Civil \u0026amp; Environmental Engineering;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAllen Hyde, associate professor in the School of History and Sociology, and faculty member of the Institute for People and Technology;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDanielle Willkens, associate professor in the School of Architecture and faculty member of the Institute for People and Technology;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAlexander Robel, associate professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EJennifer Hirsch, director of the Center for Sustainable Communities Research and Education at Georgia Tech; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EValerie M. Thomas, Anderson-Interface Chair of Natural Systems and professor in the H. Milton School of Industrial and Systems Engineering with a joint appointment in the School of Public Policy;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EJoe F. Bozeman III, assistant professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering with a joint appointment in the School of Public Policy;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ERussell Clark, lead principal investigator of the Coastal Equity and Resilience Hub and senior research scientist at the Institute for People and Technology;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ENicole Kennard, assistant director for community-engaged research in the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems; and\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EJung-Ho Lewe, senior research engineer in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EParticipating partner organizations in addition to the Penn Center include:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E7 Dimensions Outreach\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAtlanta Preservation Center\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECenter for Sustainable Communities\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECoastal Conservation League\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECommunity Church Atlanta\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EFurman University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EGullah Geechee Futures Project\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EUniversity of South Carolina: Arnold School of Public Health, the EJ Strong Program, and the Department of Environmental Health Science\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EWillson Center for Humanities and Arts at the University of Georgia\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis work is supported by a Georgia Tech\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/2024-sustainability-next-seed-grant-awards\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESustainability Next research seed grant\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E. The seed grant program is administered by the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBIS) in collaboration with the Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI), the Strategic Energy Institute (SEI), and the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT). The program nurtures promising areas for future large-scale collaborative sustainability research, research translation, and high-impact outreach; provides mid-career faculty with leadership and community-building opportunities; and broadens and strengthens the Georgia Tech sustainability community as a whole.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResilience hubs are trusted, community-serving facilities designed to support residents and coordinate communication and resources in everyday life\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Resilience hubs are trusted, community-serving facilities designed to support residents and coordinate communication and resources in everyday life"}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2025-01-23 14:40:32","changed_gmt":"2025-01-24 13:59:41","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-01-23T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2025-01-23T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"676099":{"id":"676099","type":"image","title":"Participants outside of the Frissell Community House at the Penn Center on November 21, 2024","body":"\u003Cp\u003EParticipants outside of the Frissell Community House at the Penn Center on November 21, 2024. 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