No One Resilience Plan for Boston

I'd expect that Boston is actually likely to be a fairly resilient city. On a port, access to a (now relatively healthy) waterway. On major rail routes. Moderately walkable. Decent public transit. Fairly strong civil and medical services. Not located in an area that's geologically active. Some concerns about flooding, but otherwise little concern about storm-related disasters.

I couldn't find a centralized summary of Boston's plan for resilience, but there seem to be a large number of efforts or organizations that work towards that goal. Among them:

• Boston's Office of Emergency Preparedness (my suburb, Somerville, also has their Local Emergency Preparedness Committee, which is an inter-departmental committee connecting the Fire Department and the local Department of Health)
• Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, assuming they've gotten some new management)
  
• The MBTA (both in providing economic resilience and having to respond to disasters, like this example from earlier this year)
• Massachusetts Dept. of Transportation
  
• Charles River Watershed Association (which I've mentioned in earlier weeks)
• Green Streets Initiative (thanks to another Evoke agent for mentioning some of the below)
• Community Gardeners Council
• Urban Ecology Collective
• Boston Empowerment Zone (economic development also can add to resilience)
  
• Greater Boston Food Bank
  

Not to say that it's a bad idea for cities to summarize their goals in long-term resilience plans, but it's important to remember just how many systems are involved in keeping a city strong and resilient.