According to the Rockefeller Foundation, community resilience is defined as “the capacity of (communities) to function, so that the people living and working in (communities) – particularly the poor and vulnerable – survive and thrive no matter what stresses or shocks they encounter.” Land use planners and policy makers throughout Michigan are committed to thinking long-term about how change, trends and unanticipated shocks will impact their community. This Handbook is intended to be used as a reference tool by a diverse array of land use policy and planning practitioners in local efforts to bring about greater resilience in their community.

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Note: The URL referenced in the handbook for the Rockefeller Institute City Resilience Index has changed. It is now https://cityresilienceindex.org.