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An interactive map of the building blocks of community preparedness.
These materials are derived from the Finnish Kylävara project. The project aims to improve societal resilience by strengthening village communities, with applications to more urban areas, too. Each circle on this map represents an "actant" — something that shapes how communities prepare for and respond to disruptions like power outages, storms, or other emergencies. Lines connect actants that are closely related.
NOTE: This site is still a prototype. It was created independently from the Kylävara project by the resilience researcher Matti T.J. Heino, who is fully accountable for any errors. Links to all source materials are found from the right sidebar. The motivation was to make the Kylävara project accessible to the English speaking resilience community, while exploring how such concepts could be broken down into their constituent parts, for adaptation and scaling purposes.
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Actants aren't just people. They include practices, tools, norms, organizations, and structural conditions that influence community resilience. A neighbor help group is an actant. So is a village radio network, a confidentiality norm, or electricity grid vulnerability.
They operate at different scales: