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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]
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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.
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 ...
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 ...
The project's agenda includes building a knowledge base for understanding what creates and sustains civic trust, community participation and the bonds between people and their institutions. The seminar focuses on building social capital by conducting surveys and presenting initiatives for public engagement through the book and website.