Athens-Clarke Neighborhood Resilience Project

The Athens-Clarke County Neighbourhood Resilience Project leverages the deployment of transportation and communications technology to prevent community harm caused by extreme weather events. The project is a collaboration between the Athens-Clarke County local government and researchers from three University System of Georgia institutions, aiming to reimagine how neighbourhood disaster prevention can improve the lives of residents in a community experiencing rapid economic development and population growth.

SCC interns will monitor the deployment and uptake of disaster prevention communications technology, participate in participant recruitment and retention, and conduct a systematic implementation evaluation to identify scalable population intervention targets. Interns will also build capacity to support timely cross-disciplinary project milestones between spring/summer 2023, including report synthesis and community information sharing, as well as the dissemination of research findings to ensure near-term uptake.

With the help of SCC interns, this project will reduce the susceptibility of Athens-Clarke County to extreme weather events by leveraging transportation and communication technology. To view a larger image of this presentation, click here.