FRC Redefines the Word “Resilience”
With winds ripping at 160 miles per hour and damages estimated at $25 billion, how does a town bounce back from a disaster?
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2020 Field Course: Port St. Joe
One of the research courses funded for the Spring is the Florida Climate Institute’s Field Course, an interdisciplinary, team-taught class that introduces students from departments across UF to the challenges that communities face following disasters to recover effectively and achieve long-term resilience. In the first part of the semester, students were introduced via lecture to
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Grant Kick-off Meeting in Port St. Joe
Through a generous grant from the Jessie Ball DuPont Fund, the Florida Resilient Cities (FRC) program has funded six multi-disciplinary courses and research projects. These include: Cultural Resource Survey of North Port St. Joe: Practicum Course (Marty Hylton & Linda Stevenson, Historic Preservation Program) Resilience, Well-being and Natural Resource Reliance in the Greater Port St.
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UF Team Studying Resiliency in Panhandle
On Tuesday, September 17, the Florida Resilient Cities (FRC) team held a community meeting in Port St. Joe, a small city on Florida’s panhandle, to kick-off a yearlong partnership studying long-term resiliency as the city and Gulf County continue to recover after 2018’s Hurricane Michael. Participants included community leaders, residents, business owners, neighborhood organizations, faith-based
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