Mission

The goal of CARRI is to help develop and then share critical paths that any community or region may take to strengthen its ability to prepare for, respond to, and rapidly recover from significant man-made or natural disasters with minimal downtime to basic community, government and business services.

CARRI is designed to combine community engagement activities with research activities. Resilient communities are our objective and research is critical to ensure that CARRI’s understanding is based on knowledge and evidence and not just ad hoc ideas.  For the sake of our communities and the best use of their limited resources, we want to be sure to get it right.  CARRI’s interactive linkage between research and practice in the field is very rare.

In order to take full advantage of this practice and research linkage and to move our effort to the next level, CARRI created the Community and Regional Resilience Institute in 2009.  Establishment of this new Institute is an important step in furthering CARRI’s initial work in the Southeast and realizing the full potential of the expanding community practice and growing body of research.