Resiliency Planning

Supporting multi-sector comprehensive planning processes that incorporate social, environmental, and economic considerations to protect against shocks and stresses (both man-made and natural) that threaten to destabilize communities; identifying and implementing creative solutions that allow communities to thrive even under the most challenging conditions.

Videos

Webinars

• Tourism Development Strategy for Idlewild, Michigan. September 2013

• Dr. Jennifer Hodbod's Resiliency Series (2 sessions). April 2021

• MSUE Resiliency Planning Webinar Series (6 sessions). April 2021

• Makerspaces: Supporting an Entrepreneurial System. July 2013

• Operation Above Ground: Improving Licensing for New Food Businesses to Promote a stronger Detroit Food Economy. July 2014

• H.E.R.O.E.S. Project. 2013

Podcasts

• Co-Learning Plan - Sam Butler. 2019

• Co-Learning Plan - Mary Zumbrunnen and Chris Miller. 2019

• Flint CCED. n.d

Research

• Sustainable & Just Investing at Michigan State University: A Report to the Board of Trustees. 2022

• Community Capital Accelerant. 2021

• Urban Planning Techniques and Sustainable Design for Autonomous Vehicles. 2020

• Pathways for Lifecycle Building Practices: Material Reuse in Tiny Home Construction. 2019

• Strengthening MI Infrastructure and Sustainability. 2018

• A study of the economic impact of startup accelerator programs. 2018

• Public Infrastructure and Economic Development. 2017

• Overview of Community Benefit Agreements and Status in Detroit, Michigan. 2017

• Genesee county material recovery facility feasibility study. 2016

• BLVD Harambee Business model. 2016

• Generative NZE infrastructure. 2015

• Afterhouse, Part III. 2015

• Planning Policies and Regulations that can reduce the Practice of Private Property Abandonment in the United States. 2014

• Assessing use and users: on the little traverse wheelway, the northwest state trail and north central state trail. 2014

• Great lakes bay regional transit study. 2014

• Afterhouse, Part II. 2014

• Afterhouse. 2013

• Park, recreation and open space plan for Perry, Michigan. 2013 

• Development Trends and Developers in Midtown Detroit. 2012