Big Map activity aims to better understand community complexities and develop its risk profile based on exposure within an all-hazard environment. It brings everyone together to develop a collaborative approach to resilience and recovery.
Understanding, measuring and assessing community resilience requires a keen awareness of the links and relationships between various levels of governance and the different systems which directly and indirectly affect communities. Developing strategies for building and enhancing community resilience requires an understanding that vulnerability at any level translates to increased vulnerability in other areas of a larger system.
At its foundation, DRA’s Big Map links into the community where essentially identity is what people value about where they live. However, what a community of people collectively value is open to interpretation and subject to disagreement at times. This suggests people and the ways they come to a rough consensus are at the very centre of community resilience and their intended future.
Find out more and get in touch about running your own Big Map here:
https://disasterreliefaus.org/what-we-do/community-resilience-plans/big-map/