Southwest (SW) 🏘️ Local Continuity & Community Reconnection

Restoration does not begin with technology, but with relationship. The southwestern zone of the Geo-Resilience Compass focuses on the reconnection of education, culture and local knowledge, the inclusion of existing structures and networks and the support of collective recovery processes.

Earth Observation (EO) is understood here as a supportive tool: It can contribute to making social continuity spatially visible, to planning with social sensitivity and to linking local knowledge with overarching resilience strategies – not by replacing, but through dialogue with the affected communities.

The modules and concepts developed here aim to make local identity, cultural expressions and communal knowledge visible as foundational elements of resilience. Earth Observation (EO) can support this process by making spatial changes comprehensible, facilitating accessibility and reconnection and integrating local perspectives into overarching planning logics – always in dialogue with the affected communities and without replacing their experiential spaces.

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This contribution was authored by Birgit Bortoluzzi, strategic architect and certified Graduate Disaster Manager. The content reflects original interdisciplinary synthesis developed within the framework of the Geo-Resilience Initiative.