Where are the Feds?
It seems virtually certain that the next federal budget will have significant cuts to Community Development Block Grants, commonly referred to as “CDBG.” Some have called for the elimination of the...
View ArticleThe Seven Ingredients of Community Resilience
Last week I read an interesting article by Karen Reivich on the resilience of children. I was struck by how relevant her seven ingredients were to communities. So, with apologies to her for my...
View ArticleSocial Capital: A necessary but not sufficicent condition for a resilient...
There is a growing (and welcome) recognition amongst many disaster recovery researchers on the importance of social capital in rapid and equitable recovery. This is welcome because all too often...
View ArticlePlanning, Priorities and Resilience
One of the ground rules we in CARRI have set for ourselves in developing the Community Resilience System (CRS) is that it must be outcome-oriented. As a result, everything in the CRS is focused on...
View ArticleSearching for Resilience: A Walk in the Woods
I read an interesting article recently that crystallized several other thoughts for me. The paper – with the somewhat dry title of Resilience as Resource-based Design of Anticipated Situations...
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Resilience and the Hole in the Rock Expedition
Jenae Holtzhafer in the Emmaus (PA) Patch posed this question in a posting this summer. “What if our circumstances on this Earth suddenly changed? Would we be able to endure the extreme physical and...
View ArticleThe Power of Community Assessments
We often view assessments of our communities as mechanical processes accomplished by outside experts who tell us what’s wrong with our community. But community resilience assessments collaboratively...
View ArticleHow can our rural communities become more resilient?
In a recent post (A Tale of Two Towns), I wrote about two rural communities – one undergoing a long slow death, the other desperately trying to come back from a tornado. In that post, I said, “… we...
View ArticleSustainability and Community Resilience: II. The Importance of Perceived...
In the last post, I talked about the importance of time in trying to understand the relationship between sustainability and community resilience. Another definition is useful in this discussion –...
View ArticleCrisis Coach Webinar Series
The short-term recovery effort from Super-Storm Sandy is in full swing. However, for those affected by the storm, the toughest part of their efforts to come back – their long-term recovery and...
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