How 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 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 ArticleResilience for Dummies: What is Community Resilience
I read a lot – if I don’t have a newspaper or a magazine or a journal article to read, I’ll read cereal boxes. Or I’ll get on the internet and find something there. In doing this, I’ve discovered a new...
View ArticleDecision Making and the Brain
CARRI welcomes Ian Moore as our guest blogger. Mr. Moore specializes in the psychology of decision making and how, by understanding how we make decisions, we can improve the way we make decisions. He...
View ArticleRemembrance, Renewal, Resilience
On September 8th, CARRI co-hosted the 9/11 10th Anniversary Summit in Washington, DC. Entitled Remembrance, Renewal, Resilience, the event saw the premiere of four videos, each reflecting a different...
View ArticleIt can’t happen to me
As we watched Irene skirt along the East Coast, it became very clear that many buildings in both coastal and inland communities could see serious flooding. Also of note was that evidently many owners...
View ArticleJoplin, Missouri: An encouraging story of resilience
One of the things that leaders who have reflectively seen their communities through disasters have consistently said is that people want to feel like life is getting back to normal. It makes sense....
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 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 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...
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