Pathways to preparedness: Reimagining socio-ecological resilience and everyday civil preparedness

Contemporary overlapping crises have placed total preparedness on the political agenda. The involvement of civil society actors and local communities is considered an important part of strengthening preparedness and resilience during crises. Yet there is a dissonance between overarching national preparedness strategies on the one hand, and the everyday understandings, practices and strategies that unfold among different actors and across diverse local communities on the other.

Pathways to Preparedness will therefore investigate how diverse everyday preparedness practices can help expand overarching understandings of civil preparedness and resilience in Norway.

This will be explored empirically through three cases in Trøndelag and Northern Norway: (1) immigrants’ experiences and everyday preparedness practices, (2) farmers’ strategies, and (3) traditional harvesting and subsistence practices, with particular attention to how the latter two may contribute to increased food security.

The aim is to generate new insights that can contribute to the development of inclusive preparedness policies and strengthen the resilience of local communities in the face of crises.