Six Foundations for Building Community Resilience
November 18, 2015
Efforts to build community resilience often focus on growing the capacity to “bounce back” from disruptions, like those caused by climate change. But climate change is not the only crisis we face, nor is preparing for disruption the only way to build resilience. Truly robust community resilience should do more. It should engage and benefit all community members, and consider all the challenges the community faces—from rising sea levels to a lack of living wage jobs. And it should be grounded in resilience science, which tells us how complex systems—like human communities—can adapt and persist through changing circumstances.
Six Foundations for Building Community Resilience describes how communities can approach the full scope of the 21st century’s challenges equitably and sustainably.
Read the initial responses to this report from activists and scholars
Follow-up resources
- Think Resilience online course (launched 2017)
- The Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval (Island Press, 2017)