Vision Statement: To partner with communities to build resilience, by empowering local communities to build capacity and strengthen resilience towards crises through adaptive, science-driven solutions that are scalable and replicable.
Mission Statement: To convene and engage all stakeholders in co-developing community-led solutions to resilience challenges.
C-RASC coordinates transdisciplinary scientific teams, in partnership with both industry and governments, that support communities around the world in co-developing resilience strategies that are locally led, scalable, and impact-driven. C-RASC complements and reinforces Mason’s Institute for a Sustainable Earth by focusing on resilience and its relationship to sustainability. Communities worldwide face urgent and increasingly complex challenges. C-RASC aims to support transdisciplinary, cross-sector collaboration to support bottom-up initiatives that can turn adversity into opportunity. If you’d like to learn more about C-RASC, click here to download a two-page PDF.
Distinguishing features include:
- concentrating on bottom-up, community-led approaches;
- addressing resilience in comprehensive and measurable ways;
- integrating the impacts and policy implications of converging, accelerating technological changes; and
- including practitioners with field experience.
View our FY 2021 (Year 2) Annual Report here.
View our FY 2020 (Year 1) Annual Report here.
C-RASC is supported by two colleges:
C-RASC is a joint research center between the College of Engineering and Computing and the College of Science at George Mason University. It was originally established in 2020 through support from the Provost’s Office and the Volgenau School of Engineering.