Exploring the complementary roles of an informed and involved citizenry, academic centers and community-based organizations, and disaster response professionals in disaster mitigation, response, and recovery.
A framework for analysis and action to reduce vulnerability and strengthen the resilience of individuals, households and communities.
'This project seeks to compile the lessons gained by individuals, small communities, and organizations in confronting environmental challenges linked to climate change to bring the concerns and needs of vulnerable communities to the global debate.'
Organization aiming to enhance "the capacity of rural communities to democratically identify and address their own development needs and to provide services [for] economically viable, socially just and ecologically sustainable development of Sri Lanka".
'Adapting methodology from resilience theory in ecology' the article develops 'an empirical model of the response of the New York City public health ecosystem to sudden disaster'.
Study by the UC Berkeley Institute of Urban and Regional Development looking at the economic benefits fo the Disaster Resistant Universities program.
The Community Assessment of Resilience Tool (CART) includes a survey and protocol. It provides a multiphase assessment and process with community members or service sector representatives who wish to enhance their community’s resilience and strengthen their community’s capacity to respond to current or potential disasters.
