Community Resilience
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Definitions
Other International Definitions
UNISDR
The ability of a system, community or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate to and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient manner, including through the preservation and restoration of its essential basic structures and functions. [1]
Resilience means the ability to “resile from” or “spring back from” a shock. The resilience of a community in respect to potential hazard events is determined by the degree to which the community has the necessary resources and is capable of organizing itself both prior to and during times of need.
National Definitions
United States
In the "Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems" for [2], the general definition of resilience is also adopted for Community Resilience:
The ability to prepare for and adapt to changing conditions and withstand and recover rapidly from disruptions; includes the ability to withstand and recover from deliberate attacks, accidents, or naturally occurring threats or incidents. [3]
See also
- CBRN Resilience
- Community
- Cyber Resilience
- Economic Resilience
- Hazard
- Organisational Resilience
- Resilience
- Threat
Notes
- ↑ 2009 UNISDR Terminology on Disaster Risk Reduction, United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR), Geneva, Switzerland, May 2009.
- ↑ NIST Special Publication 1190, Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems, Volume I, U.S. Department of Commerce, October 2015.
- ↑ Presidential Policy Directive -- Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience, PPD-21, 2013.