| dc.description.abstract | Community Resilience (CR) is a topic on many people’s minds these days, and
represents a community’s and an individual’s ability to weather adversity, as well as to
adapt and recover. It also represents a community’s strength and readiness to respond
to changes and capitalize on opportunities. Adaptation and recovery are intrinsically
linked to the health and wellness of a community or individual, and measuring the
link between CR and a community’s health is a point of key importance. Community
resilience is complex, so scholars and stakeholders have developed a variety of models
and metrics to measure and identify it. Many of these are linked to health and wellness
outcomes within the community, providing a foundation for the link between the
resilience of a community and the health of the people. Further research is required
as the nature of CR is better defined, but current results provide support for using the
measurement of CR to identify key points of intervention to improve the health and
wellbeing of communities. | |
