Assets for understanding how communities prepare for and respond to disruptions.
Interactive network map of community preparedness building blocks, extracted from the Finnish Kylävara village preparedness project. Explore forces and actors that influence resilience.
LiveBuild intuition for how goals are achieved and disasters averted.
Which preparedness-inducing forces appear together across research articles? Discover patterns in the academic literature.
A participatory action research project applying Participatory Narrative Inquiry, using stories as vessels of community change.
Studying the Future Backwards method for building preparedness through community foresight workshops.
These tools are part of the M-LIFE (Meso-Level Influence Framework and Explorable tools) research project, which investigates the meso-level building blocks of community preparedness — the practices, norms, tools, and structures that sit between institutional policy and individual action.
Project by Matti T.J. Heino.