The Power of Resilience: Are We Building Back Better or Just Faster?

Community systems are the places where people live, work, and interact with their environment and others. Urban or rural, coastal or inland, everyone lives in a system. These systems can promote resilience or increase the risk of negative disaster outcomes for communities simply by their designs, growth patterns, and community investment choices.

How does resilience factor into recovery? Climate resilience and social capital shape disaster recovery for communities nationwide as resilience goes beyond infrastructure.