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Chapter 1 Framing the Conversation
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... Envisioning the event as an encouragement for starting many additional conversations around disaster resilience, Bissell also outlined some broader long-term goals, such as "inspiring people at all levels of society to envision and enact initiatives to develop a more resilient nation." Susan Cutter, chair of the Committee on Increasing National Resilience to Hazards and Disasters that wrote the National Academies (2012) report, continued to frame the conversation by providing the committee's definition of resilience as "the ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from, and more successfully adapt to adverse events" (National Academies, 2012)
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... Cutter addressed several recommendations from the report that outline actions that could be taken at different levels to support greater resilience in the nation's communities. For example, government support of communitybased resilience coalitions, risk management strategies by the public and private sectors, and a national resilience scorecard were identified as actionable recommendations to enhance national resilience.1 Many of the report's recommendations formed the basis of the discussions held later that afternoon in a workshop setting.


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