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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]
Resilience is a multi-facet property, covering four dimensions: technical, organization, social and economic. [6] Therefore, using one metric may not be representative to describe and quantify resilience. In engineering, resilience is characterized by four Rs: robustness, redundancy, resourcefulness, and rapidity.
Disaster risk reduction (DRR) is defined by United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) as those actions which aim to "prevent new and reducing existing disaster risk and managing residual risk, all of which contribute to strengthening resilience and therefore to the achievement of sustainable development".
To enhance the resilience of Indian agriculture covering crops, livestock and fisheries to climatic variability and climate change through development and application of improved production and risk management technologies. To demonstrate site specific technology packages on farmers' fields for adapting to current climate risks.
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 also expresses the need for persistence although from a management approach it is expressed to have a broad range of choices and events are to be looked at as uniformly distributed. [17] Elasticity and amplitude are measures of resilience. Elasticity is the speed with which a system returns to its original/previous state.
The United Nations defines community development as "a process where community members come together to take collective action and generate solutions to common problems." [1] It is a broad concept, applied to the practices of civic leaders, activists, involved citizens, and professionals to improve various aspects of communities, typically aiming to build stronger and more resilient local ...
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 ...