{"id":14538,"date":"2015-11-18T08:31:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T13:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14538"},"modified":"2015-11-18T08:31:55","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T13:31:55","slug":"what-are-the-essential-elements-for-successfully-building-community-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14538","title":{"rendered":"What are the essential elements for successfully building community resilience?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"single-title\">\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postcarbon.org\/essential-elements-building-community-resilience\/\" target=\"_blank\">What are the essential elements for successfully building community resilience?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"long-description\">\n<h4><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postcarbon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/six-foundations-blog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6358\" src=\"http:\/\/www.postcarbon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/six-foundations-blog.jpg\" alt=\"six-foundations-blog\" width=\"800\" height=\"391\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/em>Introducing\u00a0<em>Six Foundations for Building Community Resilience<\/em>, PCI\u2019s new report which describes how communities can approach the full scope of the 21st century\u2019s challenges equitably and sustainably.<\/h4>\n<p>It\u2019s all too easy to look at the news these days and find an instant reminder of how vulnerable, and in some cases broken, our communities are\u2014whether the risks they face are due to terrorism, natural disasters, economic struggles, dilapidated infrastructure, or a dozen other disruptive forces. I could quickly provide some examples, torn from this week\u2019s headlines, but if you\u2019re reading this a month, a year, or decade from now it\u2019s likely the task will be just as easy.<\/p>\n<p>This is partly true, of course, because vulnerability has always been part of human communities. But in this age of global interconnectedness, those vulnerabilities are not only more complex and systemic, they\u2019re chronic.<\/p>\n<p>Since Post Carbon Institute\u2019s formation a little over a decade ago, we\u2019ve seen interest in building community resilience skyrocket\u2014from the early days of the grassroots relocalization and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.transitionnetwork.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Transition<\/a>\u00a0movements, in response to concerns about climate change and peak oil, to the more recent initiatives of the U.S.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/topic\/resilience\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Homeland Security<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unisdr.org\/we\/campaign\/cities\" target=\"_blank\">United Nations<\/a>\u00a0to prepare cities for acute disasters.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, interest in building climate resilience has grown exponentially since Hurricane Sandy hit the U.S. Northeast in 2012, and as the need for climate\u00a0<em>adaptation<\/em>, not just mitigation, has become more and more evident.<\/p>\n<p>Having ourselves promoted community resilience for years, we\u2019ve been pleased to see the concept of resilience being embraced by a diverse collection of grassroots groups, government agencies, politicians, and philanthropists. But we\u2019re also eager to ensure that\u00a0community resilience building isn\u2019t simply adopted\u00a0an aspirational goal divorced of concrete strategies, or as a strategy to \u201cbounce back\u201d from one specific set of disruptions to a normal state that no longer exists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the essential elements for successfully building community resilience? Introducing\u00a0Six Foundations for Building Community Resilience, PCI\u2019s new report which describes how communities can approach the full scope of the 21st century\u2019s challenges equitably and sustainably. It\u2019s all too easy to look at the news these days and find an instant reminder of how vulnerable, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8576,639,4266,10652],"class_list":["post-14538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-community-resilience","tag-post-carbon-institute","tag-resiliency","tag-resilient-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14539,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14538\/revisions\/14539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}