The University of Georgia’s (UGA) Defense Community Resilience Program (DCRP) is a multi-disciplinary collaborative network working directly with military installations and their surrounding civilian communities to respond to encroachment threats and climate driven vulnerabilities with innovative solutions developed in collaboration with installation personnel, local civilian community leaders, and with University of Georgia research and outreach experts.
The UGA Defense Community Resilience
in partner defense communities who
science, natural resources management,
Program (DCRP) provides a proactive
serve as liaisons between the installa-
economics, sociology, and many others.
mechanism for military installations
tions, the civilian community, and UGA’s
and supporting defense communities to
network of researchers and technical ex-
access resources to help them strengthen
perts from academic, government, and
their shared resilience and support the
private sector partners.
long-term sustainability of the military
Through this broad interdisciplinary process, the UGA DCRP seeks to help develop solutions to environmental, climatological, and development related
Through this network, DCRP Resilience
challenges that save money and conserve
Professionals facilitate access to diverse
resources by providing multiple layers of
Housed within UGA’s Carl Vinson
expertise in fields that include: plan-
benefits and maximizing the technical,
Institute of Government, the DCRP em-
ning, engineering, ecology, climatology,
social, and environmental values em-
ploys Resilience Professionals stationed
landscape architecture, environmental
bodied in every project.
mission in these communities.
Program Contact: J. Scott Pippin, JD jspippin@uga.edu