Community Resilience
And Adaptation
Community Resilience
And Adaptation
Empowering Community
For a Brighter Future
Drachman Institute
Resilience, Connection, and Belonging across the Built Environment
The Drachman Institute is committed to advancing resilience, connection, and belonging across the built environment through transformational interdisciplinary research, design and outreach partnerships.
Southwest Center on Resilience for Climate Change and Health
Empower communities in dry regions to adapt to the health risks of climate change.
The Southwest Center on Resilience for Climate Change and Health supports cross-disciplinary researchers and community partners to plan and implement programs that helps underserved communities in hot and dry geographic regions adapt to climate-driven health threats.
BRISA Center for the Environment
Building Resilience, Innovation, Sustainability, and Assistance
The BRISA Center for the Environment’s mission is to work as authentic partners with communities towards environmental, energy, and climate resilience, innovation, and sustainability goals. We serve as a one-stop shop for hands-on technical assistance, multi-faceted training, and other eligible forms of assistance, resources, and support to program participants.
Water Resources Research Center
Greater depth, broader perspective for a clear water future
The WRRC tackles key water policy and management issues, empowers informed decision-making, and enriches understanding through engagement, education, and applied research.
Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy
Working for a world in which governance at all levels is rooted in meaningful knowledge and analysis.
Udall Center engages in applied research and outreach on public-policy topics relating to economic development, environment, tribal governance, public health, public lands, and energy transitions.
Natural Resource Users Law & Policy Center
Promoting collaborative partnerships to address complex legal and policy analysis needs of the natural resource community.
The center’s roles include collaborating with stakeholders, mentoring students, providing legal and policy analysis, and addressing underrepresented law and policy needs of the natural resource community of Arizona and the West.
Adaptation with the Arizona Institute for Resiliences
WEST Center
WEST Center facilitates innovative research and technology development to ensure safe and sustainable water supplies. Critical to WEST’s success is the partnership between the University of Arizona, the private sector, utilities, and the community at large.
Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center
The Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center develops actionable science and implementable climate adaptation solutions in partnership with natural and cultural resource managers, policy makers, Native Nations, and researchers across the Southwest.
Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions
The Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions provides services and benefits to connect rapidly evolving scientific understanding of a changing climate with management practices in the U.S. and internationally.
Heat Resilience Initiative
The Heat Resilience Initiative addresses the global challenge of extreme heat through research, education, and engagement, supporting and leveraging heat research efforts across departments and disciplines.
Indigenous Resilience Center
IRes partners with tribes to collaboratively identify community-driven resilience goals and priorities, focusing on capacity to implement strategies and actions that reduce climate change impacts in a respectful and culturally sensitive way.
International Resilience Lab
The International Resilience Lab collaboratively leads and facilitates socially engaged research and collaboration between the University of Arizona and local and global partners.
Climate Assessment for the Southwest
The Climate Assessment for the Southwest program provides information to help communities, resource managers, and agricultural producers make decisions about drought, wildfire, extreme weather, and the human health impacts of these phenomena.
Lovejoy Center
Guided by Thomas Lovejoy's scientific work and unwavering optimism, the Lovejoy Center advances the science and practice of biodiversity conservation through research, education, and cross-sector collaborations.
