Characteristics of a Resilient Community

May 14, 2009 by David Eggleton

I found this list at http://www.resilientus.org/
 
- IT ANTICIPATES: problems, opportunities, potentials for surprises
 
- IT REDUCES VULNERABILITIES: related to development paths, socio-economic conditions, sensitivities to possible threats
 
- IT RESPONDS: effectively, fairly, and legitimately
 
- IT RECOVERS: rapidly, better, safer and fairer (objectives which may not align perfectly, calling for widespread community participation in strategy development)
 
Resilience is a measure of local community wealth.  It emerges because of proactive investments of attention, time and personal energy that local people make when they aren't busy, or exhausted from, coping with problems and surprises.