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The Primacy of Social Capital for Community Resilience

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Transportation accidents. Resilience will come not from physical engineering—instead, it will come from bottom up responses built on local social networks. April 16, 2007 was the day of my community’s worst crisis, its worst collective trauma, ever. Earthquakes. Ice storms. Infectious disease outbreaks. Industrial accidents.

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