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An important challenge for human societies is that of mastering the complexity of Community Resilience, namely “the sustained ability of a community to utilize available resources to respond to, withstand, and recover from adverse situations”. The above concise definition puts the accent on an important requirement: a community’s ability to make use in an intelligent way of the available resources, both institutional and spontaneous, in order to match the complex evolution of the “significant multi-hazard threats characterizing a crisis”. Failing to address such requirement exposes a community to extensive failures that are known to exacerbate the consequences of natural and human-induced crises. As a consequence, we experience today an urgent need to respond to the challenges of community resilience engineering. This problem, some reflections, and preliminary prototypical contributions constitute the topics of the present article.
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De Florio, V., Sun, H., Blondia, C. (2014). Community Resilience Engineering: Reflections and Preliminary Contributions. In: Majzik, I., Vieira, M. (eds) Software Engineering for Resilient Systems. SERENE 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8785. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12241-0_1
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