Community Resilience Building Workshop Survey - East Greenwich

Community Strengths, Vulnerabilities, and Actions

Thank you for participating in this survey. We’ve designed it to inform the Community Resilience Building process for East Greenwich, based on Rhode Island's Municipal Resilience Program.

Your input here is important. We want to make sure that as many voices as possible are heard as your community continues to prepare for extreme weather and climate change, today and in the future.

Please take your time answering the questions below. The survey should take about 15 minutes. All responses will be used to build a Summary of Findings report to help guide East Greenwich forward. The first questions are about Natural Resources. They’re followed by questions about the Infrastructure and Societal/Public Health components of your community.

Sincere thanks in advance–you are helping make your community a more resilient and sustainable place!

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* 1. From your perspective, what are the top three most significant hazards your community is already experiencing and/or needs to start preparing for? (i.e. hurricanes, heat, drought, sea level rise, infectious diseases/pandemic, river flooding, Nor'easters, storm surge, wildfire, tornadoes, wind, ice/snow, others?)

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* 2. What Natural Resources are important to your community (i.e. wetlands, rivers, floodplains, forests, grasslands, parks, others)? What benefits do these Natural Resources provide?

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* 3. Which Natural Resources are at risk due to current and future impacts from extreme weather and climate change? Where are these Natural Resources located? (i.e. which ones and where)

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* 4. Which Infrastructure/Facilities/Systems (i.e. schools, bridges, roads, buildings, dams, sewer, drinking water, others) are critical to your community and are at risk due to hazards associated with extreme weather and climate change? (i.e. extreme heat, drought, heavy rain events, coastal/inland flooding, storm surge, sea level rise, ice, wind, snow, others)

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* 5. What makes this Infrastructure vulnerable? (i.e. location, age, building codes, housing type, others)

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* 6. What are the known and potential consequences of the Infrastructure vulnerability described above? (i.e. decreased access, displacement, toxicity, business interruption, unemployment, others)

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* 7. What are some of the strengths of your community? (i.e. active civic groups, organizations, associations; community center; full-time police, fire, and emergency medical services; active communication, others)

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* 8. Where and what are the population characteristics of the people living in high-risk areas in your community? (i.e. elderly, low/moderate income residents, homeless, special needs, languages spoken, others)

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* 9. Given all of these strengths and vulnerabilities across Natural Resources, Infrastructure, and Societal/Public Health, what actions do you suggest to improve the resilience of your community? Please enter as many of your suggested actions for each component (Natural Resources, Infrastructure, Societal) in the spaces provided below...

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* 10. Actions for Natural Resources?

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* 11. Actions for Infrastructure?

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* 12. Actions for Societal/Public Health?

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* 13. Of the actions you described above, which are the top three highest priority for your community to implement in the next five years?

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* 14. Please feel free to include here any other information you think is critical to help inform the Community Resilience Building process in East Greenwich. Sincere thanks!