Category: Land Use
Elevating resilience planning to protect communities
![Fern Hickey is a master’s student specializing in Land Use and Environmental Planning](https://planning.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/399/2020/11/Hickey_Fern-225x300.jpg)
There is immense value in having the PIRS integrated into planning training.
Spillover Benefits of Park Proximity
![Ethan Sleeman](https://planning.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/399/2019/08/Sleeman_Ethan-300x257.jpg)
Investing in green space and park creation has enormous benefits.
Building resilience for storm-battered N.C.
![DCRP faculty member Todd BenDor](https://planning.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/399/2017/06/bendor2-200x300.jpg)
Carolina researchers created a plan to help vulnerable communities weather future storms.
Carolina Tracker: A Resource for Recovery
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The Carolina Tracker website features timely stories, datasets and visualizations based on 30 different economic, social and transportation indicators for all 100 counties in North Carolina.
Sustainable Development and Natural Hazards
![Miyuki Hino image](https://planning.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/399/2019/10/thumbnail_hino_miyuki-300x175.jpg)
Measuring how climate change affects different social and economic outcomes, Dr. Hino works on increasing community resilience to the impacts of climate change.
Response to the Pandemic: Surveillance
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The implications of cellphone-based surveillance and data collection systems emerging in response to the current health crisis.
Resilience Scorecard
![Philip Berke](https://planning.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/399/2019/07/Berke-1-200x300.jpg)
Assessing the degree to which the network of local plans target geographic areas most prone to hazards and evaluate the coordination of those local plans.
We’re Everywhere!
![Dr. Whittemore image](https://planning.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/399/2020/01/whittemore-flip-scaled-e1580148493699-300x200.jpg)
“We’re Everywhere!”: The Social, Political and Economic Life of LGBTQ+ Communities.
Resiliency Urbanism
![Meenu Tewari](https://planning.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/399/2019/12/Meenu-10-10-18-300x251.jpg)
Tales of Climate Adaptation from Four Indian Cities: India’s massive urban transition is happening at the same time as dramatic climate change.
In the Shadows of Ferguson
![Dr. Mai Nguyen](https://planning.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/399/2017/06/Mai-talk-300x158.jpg)
“In the Shadows of Ferguson” personifies the socio-historical-political processes that institutionalized racism and inequality.