The Covid-19 pandemic reminds us that shocks and crises often take unpredictable forms. Communities, are experiencing their great vulnerability, but at the same time reveal their coping and adaptation capacity, in the hope of being better prepared for future crises. These Cerema notebooks support these dynamics through the resilience compass, which is intended to help the stakeholders in the territories who are constantly aware of the challenges to be met. The Cerema resilience compass presented in this guide constitutes, in this context, a framework for reflection and action. It is intended to help the stakeholders of the community and, more broadly, of the territory (companies, local stakeholders, inhabitants, etc.), strengthen their resilience to better anticipate, act, bounce back, transform over time and, ultimately, to reduce their vulnerabilities. The compass is thus suitable for any type of territory (city, inter-municipality, district, department, region, catchment, natural park, coastal strip, etc.) or organisation (community, company, public establishment, association, etc.). It aims for example to feed the reflections of the territory by shedding light on its degree of maturity on the subject. It allows any public policies; approaches, project or existing or planned actions to be considered from a resilience standpoint. It reveals their contribution to the overall resilience of the territory and helps identify avenues for improvement. More generally, it can support the implementation and monitoring of sustainable territorial projects, by making it possible to integrate all the components of resilience into these projects. Finally, the resilience qualities described in the annex can also serve as a reading grid to strengthen the resilience of projects, public policies or processes. The methods for using the resilience compass are therefore not set in stone at this stage and will be the subject of exploration and capitalisation.
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