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3 Perspectives on Resilient Communities
3 Perspectives on Resilient Communities
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. T he Gulf region has experienced a variety of disas ters in the past decade -- from droughts that devastated fishing communities to a series of powerful hur DEVELOPING A RESILIENCE MINDSET Anita Chandra, senior policy researcher and direcricanes, the 2008 economic recession, and the 2010 tor of Justice, Infrastructure, and Environment at the DWH oil spill, noted LaDon Swann, director of the RAND Cooperation, has spent the past decade workMississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium.
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Such a mindset allows com- Building resilience demands a long-term perspective, munities to link sources of chronic stress that thwart in which communities learn from the past as they plan public health on a daily basis (e.g., economic down- for the future, said Craig Colten, Carl O Sauer Professor turns, housing difficulties, community violence)
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KEY CHARACTERISTICS OF What is needed is to bring together the social net- RESILIENT COMMUNITIES works, mobility, and ingenuity of local inherent resilience practices with large-scale, better-organized, and John Hosey, the Gulf Coast Restoration Initiative better-financed formal resilience programs, said Col- Director of Development for The Corps Network, has ten. On one hand, formal plans do not include pro- worked on a variety of programs to improve disaster cedures to take advantage of the highly effective local recovery and resilience in Gulf communities, including social networks, and can be slow to reach communities working as a Board Member and President of the South and poorly integrate local expertise.
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The community is part of the solution, The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in 1989 when not the problem. They help prepare their neigh- an oil tanker setting out for California struck a reef in bors, friends, and family members.
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As ity through enhancing medical infrastructure, mental of 2010, only 10 of the 26 resources/species are consid- health services, providing community health workers, ered recovered (Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, training community volunteers and facilitating the ac2010)
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Individual participants identified several ences to better understand community needs and how areas of related research: to change the relationship between communities, their o Opportunities to use existing health datasets to government, and companies in ways that will make measure resilience communities more resilient. o Importance of cultural context in developing Paul Sandifer, noted that resilience is a concept that and sustaining resilience can help communities "bounce forward," rather than o Metrics for community versus individual resilience back to the way things were before a disaster, and he o Metrics for formal versus inherent resilience encouraged participants to think more about "what do o Metrics for capacity and processes we need to do to get to where we ought to be, both o Linking metrics to resilience practices from an environmental standpoint and, especially, from o Understanding the value of ecosystems (comthe social cultural and the public health standpoints." munity and economic perspectives)
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