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== PBEM's Approach to Community Resilience == | == PBEM's Approach to Community Resilience == | ||
[[File:Community Resilience Trends.jpg|alt=Screenshot (taken 2023.10.05) from Google Trends charting search engine interest in the term "Community Resilience", with a the most significant spike in July to September 2005.|thumb|400x400px|'''''Diagram 1:''''' ''Screenshot (taken 2023.10.05) from Google Trends charting search engine interest in the term "Community Resilience", with a the most significant spike in July to September 2005. Click to enlarge.'']] | |||
<big>'''Community resilience is a shared, community-based practice building social connections, collective strengths, and skills key to resisting/absorbing/recovering from a widespread disaster, as well as local and regional emergencies.'''</big> | |||
Participants in PBEM community programs will notice this view of resilience in all our activities and coaching. We build it into the Neighborhood Emergency Team (NET) program, Community Resilience Workbook, and Community Organizations Active in Disaster (COAD). But, PBEM's CRT definition is not the only definition of community resilience, and that matters. | |||
Americans have shown growing interest in "community resilience" since [[wikipedia:Hurricane_Katrina|Hurricane Katrina]] struck in August 2005 (see diagram 1). In a feedback loop of interest generating ideas, many academics, civil servants, and leaders see a link between resilience and a reduction of harmful outcomes from disasters, without clarity on what “community resilience” should ''mean''. As a result, different definitions of community resilience exist. Each reflect, and are freighted by, the views of their authors. | |||
PBEM's definition suits us, borrowing from many others, while possibly not passing muster among hard-nosed social scientists.<ref>For context, the most recognized definition of resilience comes from the [https://www.undrr.org/terminology/resilience United Nation International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR)]: ''“the ability of a system, community or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate to and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient manner, including through the preservation and restoration of its essential basic structures and functions”.''</ref> Fortunately, this Wiki was not written for them. Volunteers should simply know that many approaches to community resilience exist. PBEM CRT's definition of community resilience ''specifically'' serves an ''orientation to disaster preparedness and response''. Our program addresses the periods before, during, and after a disaster. | |||
The big question comes in whether other community resilience approaches can fit with PBEM’s. When PBEM volunteers raise a momentum of activity around their work, they may meet neighbors responding to that momentum by placing their own legitimate community resilience interests on the agenda. That might include serving the homeless, or economic development, or crime prevention, or neighborhood preservation, among other possibilities. Those considerations are addressed as part of the [[Community Resilience Districts|Community Resilience District (CRD)]] concept, and not discussed in this article. | |||
