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The Primacy of Social Capital for Community Resilience

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

In a 2022 review article published by Carmen et al in the journal Ambio on the role of social capital and community resilience in the context of climate change, the authors find strong evidence for appreciating the different forms of social capital and the role they play in resiliency. (pp. 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

Every day, people around the world are impacted by the unexpected – from pandemics, to natural and human-wrought disasters, to economic crises. According to the United Nations (UN) 2022 Global Assessment Report on Climate Reduction , worldwide disasters will get worse if current trends continue.