Historic Resilience
Resources
The Historic Resilience Project seeks to equip local communities to address the natural threats to historic and cultural resources. Find informational and educational materials to help your community below.
Historic Resilience Primer
The Historic Resilience Primer: Resilient Adaptation Strategies for North Carolina’s Historic Properties is an essential introduction for all audiences. The Primer provides contextual information on the impacts of natural hazards in North Carolina, state and federal hazard mitigation resources, and detailed and concrete examples of historically appropriate resilience adaptations. It is intended to be used in tandem with the Community Planning Handbook and the Resilience Design Standards, both below.
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Historic Resilience Community Planning
The Handbook for Historic Resilience Community Planning: Protecting North Carolina’s History, Culture, and Economy from Natural Hazards provides a straightforward process that communities can use to prepare their own historic resilience plans.
The methodology is designed to be used by local planners, emergency managers, consultants, and others to identify the historic resources that are most vulnerable to natural hazards and to implement strategies to better protect them. The process is tailored to be effective and achievable by local staff who have many responsibilities and limited resources.
Download the Handbook for Historic Resilience Community Planning Download the Handbook’s editable Word docs Download “Getting Started with (Q)GIS” Community Planning Video
Resilience Design Standards
The Resilience Design Standards: Model Standards for North Carolina’s Historic Properties is a ready-made tool for local governments to encourage and support historic resilience efforts by property owners.
The Standards provide a model regulatory framework for historic preservation commissions to assess the appropriateness of specific structural interventions for properties with a local historic designation. They may be tailored to a community and adopted as a supplement to existing preservation design standards.
While the target audiences for the Standards are preservation professionals and commission members, the information in this publication is relevant to property owners, hazard mitigation professionals, and many others.
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Glossary
Here, you’ll find an explanation of many of the terms that appear in the Historic Resilience Project’s publications.
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Additional Resources
Here, you’ll find an extensive list of links to documents, websites, mapping tools, and databases related to the Historic Resilience Project.
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