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Community resilience is the sustained ability of a community to use available resources (energy, communication, transportation, food, etc.) to respond to, withstand, and recover from adverse situations (e.g. economic collapse to global catastrophic risks). [1] This allows for the adaptation and growth of a community after disaster strikes. [2]
The concept of resilience originated from engineering and then gradually applied to other fields. It is related to that of vulnerability. Both terms are specific to the event perturbation, meaning that a system/infrastructure/community may be more vulnerable or less resilient to one event than another one. However, they are not the same.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity is a 2012 non-fiction book by Katherine Boo.The book chronicles the lives of residents in Annawadi, a slum near the Mumbai airport, offering an intimate portrait of poverty, inequality, and resilience in modern India.
Rangbhoomi: The Arena of Life [a] is a Hindi-language novel by Premchand.It features an idealist protagonist inspired by Gandhian values. [1] First published in 1924, the novel covers complex human relationships and emotions, with various themes, including problems faced by poor people due to industrialisation during British Raj.
Urban resilience is a term used to describe the ability of a city or urban community to withstand or prosper during disasters, both man-made and natural. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This concept includes the resilience of both physical infrastructure as well as social, health, and economic systems.
Resilience (Greitens book), "Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life", a 2015 book by Eric Greitens; Resilience (2018), seventh book in Fletcher DeLancey's Chronicles of Alsea series; Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness, a memoir by Jessie Close with Pete Earley; Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of ...
In Sikhism, Chardi Kala (Gurmukhi: ਚੜ੍ਹਦੀ ਕਲਾ caṛhadī kalā) or Charhdi Kala, is the Punjabi term for aspiring to maintain a mental state of eternal resilience, optimism and joy; an acceptance that life ebbs and flows with hardship and to rise above that adversity.
The Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF) is a nonprofit foundation based in Geneva, Switzerland. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] It is the first global ...