The Case for Cultivating Community Resilience – Adapting to challenges, sustaining hope.
Communities today are shaped and impacted by a myriad of complex issues – the effects of climate change, deteriorating infrastructure, an aging population, growing debt levels at the household, government and corporate levels, rising inequality, and growing rates of loneliness and isolation in people of all ages.
The concept of community resilience is a multi- faceted one. Most often, community resilience is defined as a community’s ability to “bounce back” after a crisis or disaster. This definition, however, is incomplete. A second important, but often overlooked, dimension of community resilience recognizes the proactive efforts required to build stronger and more cohesive communities.
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