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The Primacy of Social Capital for Community Resilience

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Magis ( 2010 ) similarly defines it as “the existence, development and engagement of community resources by community members to thrive in an environment characterized by change, uncertainty, unpredictability and surprise” (p. It matters for economic development. 363) Social capital matters.

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Building resilience: Using technology to prepare for, respond to, and recover from the unexpected

AWS Public Sector Blog

AWS supports technical training for investigators and students to increase awareness of how the cloud can accelerate their research related to prediction, preparedness, and response, in addition to supporting first responders with workshops on geo-mapping. Preparing for the unexpected. At the time, some 300,000 people were injured , and 1.5