what is quot resilience quot what activities can be expected to enhance personal resilience

Define the term “resilience.” What attitudes, behaviors, and activities can be expected (or are proven) to enhance personal resilience? Neighborhood resilience? Community resilience? Are these activities complimentary, collaborative, or deleterious? Explain.

Resilience is defined many ways, but consistently implies the ability or aspect of recovering, or resisting damage from, a stressor applied to the system.

What behaviors can the Emergency Manager craft, apply, provide, that will lend to a given ‘community’s’ (household/family/neighborhood/city/state/ etc.) physical and emotional resilience?

Consider, what are the essential ‘needs’ of a human for survival; what are the additional needs to thrive? Can we “sequence” or prioritize these needs? Can we anticipate, plan, inform, train, pre-position, etc. factors to assure these needs are met?