Community resilience is the sustained ability of a community to utilize available resources (e.g. energy, communication, food, etc.) to respond to, withstand, and recover from adverse situations (e.g. economic collapse to global catastrophic risks. This allows for the evolution and growth of a community after disaster strikes. Communities that are resilient are able to minimize any disaster, making the return to normal life as effortless as possible. By implementing a community resilience plan, a community can come together and overcome any disaster, while rebuilding physically and economically.
What is a community resilience plan?
A community resilience plan is a plan of action that allows for a community to rebuild after disaster. Each plan should entail specific guidelines that will aid the community to rebuild both the economy and the ecosystem that the community thrives on. this typically means there are measures in place that a community will follow, such as the distribution of volunteers, and the access to knowledge necessary to rebuild.