A landscape of need: mapping community resilience in England

Community resilience is a marker of how well communities can handle and recover from difficult events. It is referred to in various resilience framework policies; but how is it measured, and how can it be used to target support?

In this Policy@Manchester blog, Christine Camacho (ARC-GM PhD Fellow) and Dr Luke Munford (ARC-GM Deputy Lead for Economic Sustainabilty) , outline their work in developing a new measure – a Community Resilience Index (CRI) – which highlights how resilience differs across England, and how policymakers can target support to communities that need it most.

• Before the development of the CRI, no published measure of community resilience in England existed, despite it being a key aim of national and local policymakers.
• The CRI shows that overall, coastal, rural, and Northern regions had lower resilience than urban areas – 12 of the 20 local authorities with the lowest resilience were in coastal areas.
• The CRI provides a framework within which decisions on funding allocation, interventions, and investment can be made, including in tackling spatial inequalities.

You can access the full blog from the Policy@Manchester site here

Published 14/10/24