Resilience Archives - Institute for Sustainable Communities

by Radiah Shabazz | January 27, 2021

Bringing Equity to Recovery Efforts in the Upper Texas Gulf Coast

How One Regional Resilience Initiative is Building Power in Communities Major climate disasters disproportionately impact low income, low heath, and communities of color. From health to home to economy to well-being, these communities are [...]

ISC Update

by Radiah Shabazz | January 27, 2021

Preserving Black History in Petersburg, VA

USO Beaux-Twenty Club Poised for Designation on National Register of Historic Places The Heights Community in Petersburg, Virginia is a historically Black district, once known for its affluence. At one time, the Heights was a community of [...]

Resilience

by ISC Staff | January 27, 2021

Partnership for Resilient Communities Partner Highlights

This list is by no means conclusive, it lifts up only a handful of the major accomplishments, milestones, and highlights of the PRC partners so far this year. Please click the links to each organization’s website to learn more and directly [...]

Climate

by Sushama Darne | December 4, 2020

Maintaining Soil Health – Key to Agricultural Development

Back in 2015, the United Nations launched the International Year of the Soils and flagged off the first ever World Soil Day on December 5th. The nourishing, sustaining life force on which agriculture inalienably relies, has been called [...]

Climate

by Romit Sen | October 23, 2020

Gender Sensitive Response to Climate Crisis

A crowd of people jostling by the ticket counter at Jhansi Railway Station in Uttar Pradesh; men and women, some with families in tow, boarding trains to Delhi, Lucknow, Mumbai and other big cities. These are common sights during the summer [...]

Climate

by Divya Nazareth | October 14, 2020

Leading Action on Climate Change : Why Rural Women Matter for Equitable Adaptation

A moral challenge for adaptation in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for both policy and practice is “leaving no one behind”. Rural women are at risk from a double whammy of climate change and pre-existing discriminatory [...]

Climate

by ISC Staff | October 9, 2020

Interconnectedness of Water & Livelihood with Other Aspects of Atmanirbhar Bharat

ISC's Country Director - India, Vivek Adhia highlights the role of water as an important driver to enable a resilient and sustainable recovery, for India to become self-reliant. He details how the COVID-19 pandemic has provided an opportunity to [...]

Climate

by ISC Staff | October 9, 2020

Climate Change and Agriculture: Way Ahead for Low-Emission Growth

ISC’s Associate Director for Water Programs, Romit Sen pens a detailed piece on climate change and agriculture – the interlinkages, the concerns and mitigation efforts required to reduce the environmental footprint of agriculture, through the [...]

Resilience

by ISC Staff | September 30, 2020

PRC Supports Neighborhood Champions in Paving the Way for a Greener New Orleans

“The rippling effect of one resident educating their friends and relatives about green infrastructure is the catalyst for change" Angela Chalk Executive Director, Healthy Community Services Due to advocacy efforts, in [...]

Resilience

by ISC Staff | September 29, 2020

Major Partner Policy Wins and Project Milestones of Partnership for Resilient Communities Partners

This list is by no means conclusive, it lifts up only a handful of the major accomplishments, milestones, and highlights of the PRC partners so far this year. Please click the links to each organization’s website to learn more and directly [...]

Climate

by ISC Staff | August 20, 2020

3 Key Approaches in Building Resilient Cotton Cultivating Communities

India may be the world’s largest producer of cotton, but cotton cultivating communities in the country face serious risks associated with high water stress and low community resilience to climate change. The need of the hour is to promote [...]

Climate

by Ravikant Kumar | August 19, 2020

In Response to Climate Change, Cotton Farmers Work to Understand and Conserve Water Resources

Annual rainfall that cannot support robust cotton cultivation, and fast-declining ground water levels are real risks cotton farmers must manage for their crops and their livelihoods. Vijay Narayan Rau, a cotton farmer in Kalamb block of Yavatmal [...]

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