{"id":12749,"date":"2020-01-22T03:56:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T03:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=12749"},"modified":"2020-01-22T03:56:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T03:56:05","slug":"planning-for-community-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/22\/planning-for-community-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning For Community Resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><em>BY SUN VALLEY INSTITUTE TEAM<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9747\" src=\"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/USE-SVI-white-background-med-res-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>While resilience is often seen as a personal trait, many of the challenges we face are collective.\u00a0Significant economic, social and environmental disruptions shake up the status quo for entire populations. However, we are not simply at the mercy of these large forces! We as a community can cultivate community resilience, and heighten our collective chances to thrive in the face of change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cTwo types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies\u2019 histories] toward success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection, we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.\u201d\u00a0\u2015Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">To Diamond\u2019s first point, the more we as a community can plan in advance, such as assessing, innovating and strengthening our relationships, infrastructure and priorities, such as making our energy, food and communications systems more resilient, the easier the ride will be. \u201cEvery $1 spend on climate adaptation now will yield between $9-$38 in avoided damages in the future.\u201d\u00a0This is a wildly good investment!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">To Diamond\u2019s second point, to plan ahead well, we need to live the values that allow us to thrive in the future, not just that have benefitted us in the past.\u00a0Strong social cohesion and trust allows a community to work together and problem-solve. Equity, inclusion, civics and civility allows us to access all the creativity and resourcefulness in our community needed to turn today\u2019s risks into tomorrow\u2019s vibrant opportunities.\u00a0We can wisely deploy resources in ways that create jobs, protect the environment, and cultivate community cohesion\u2014all that create a better today as well as tomorrow. Many in our community are working toward this. Please join us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY SUN VALLEY INSTITUTE TEAM While resilience is often seen as a personal trait, many of the challenges we face are collective.\u00a0Significant economic, social and environmental disruptions shake up the status quo for entire populations. However, we are not simply at the mercy of these large forces! We as a community can cultivate community resilience, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sponsored","category-sv-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}