“When I think about resilience at the community level,” Lourdes Rodriguez says, “I think about communities that understand that the conditions creating adversity are bigger than an individual.”
In physics, resilience is an object’s ability to bounce back into its original form after sustaining a shock. In communities, it means something much more.
Wendy Ellis, project director of the Building Community Resilience(BCR) collaborative at the Milken Institute of Public Health at George Washington University, associates community resilience with an ability to “bounce forward”—moving forward, in the wake of disasters like Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Katrina, towards more equitable living conditions.
[For more on this story by Josephine Gurch, go to http://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-community-resilience]
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