The Guide defines community resilience as:
“The ability of a community to prepare for anticipated hazards, adapt to changing conditions, and withstand and recover rapidly from disruptions. Activities such as disaster preparedness (which includes prevention, protection, mitigation, response and recovery) and reducing community stressors (the underlying social, economic and environmental conditions that can weaken a community) are key steps to resilience.”
Within this broad definition, there are steps that can help you build community resilience. As you plan for and carry out resilience measures, build in equity and future conditions as cross-cutting themes. We’ll discuss these steps, themes and ways to carry them out below.