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Google Cloud launches new sustainability offerings to help public sector agencies improve climate resilience

Google Public Sector

With these data-driven insights, public sector agencies and researchers can improve their response time to climate disasters, make more accurate predictions, and implement disaster-response plans with greater confidence. Click here to learn more about Google Cloud sustainability. Read Article.

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The Primacy of Social Capital for Community Resilience

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Like the idea of individual resiliency, “community resilience is a measure of the sustained ability of a community to utilize available resources to respond to, withstand, and recover from adverse situations” ( RAND Corporation ). This ability to respond and recover from disruption, from crisis situations, is called community resilience.

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Capital shallowing: the effect of disinvestment on government functioning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It's used in a Financial Times article about the National Health Service in Britain, how with decreased funding and investment, the amount of capital to support each worker, and each facility, declines in systematic ways that often reduce the ability to provide proper care (" NHS capital investment cuts leave England’s hospitals crumbling ").