Crisis Management

What Is the Meaning of Community Resilience?

Katherine Windust | May 21, 2024

According to the Cambridge Dictionary (2024), a community is defined as "the people living in one particular area or people who are considered as a unit because of their common interests, social group, or nationality," and resilience is described as "the ability to be happy, successful, etc., again after something difficult or bad has happened." RAND (2024) describes community resilience as "a measure of the sustained ability of a community to utilize available resources to respond to, withstand, and recover from adverse situations." Looking back over the last decade, numerous examples demonstrate how communities have come together and what has…
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