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Community Resilience: A Cross-Cultural Study

Community Resilience: A Cross-Cultural Study

Urban Sustainability Laboratory

By Megan Scribner & Lauren Herzer Risi

Migration Society and Culture Race and Ethnicity Africa Asia Pakistan

Community Resilience: A Cross-Cultural Study

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This report draws from the dialogue and seminar papers shared at a December 2008 meeting co-hosted by the Wilson Center and the Fetzer Institute to explore conditions that promote resilience and examine compelling examples of community resilience worldwide.

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Megan Scribner

Fetzer Institute

Lauren Herzer Risi

Lauren Herzer Risi

Program Director, Environmental Change and Security Program

Urban Sustainability Laboratory

Since 1991, the Urban Sustainability Laboratory has advanced solutions to urban challenges—such as poverty, exclusion, insecurity, and environmental degradation—by promoting evidence-based research to support sustainable, equitable and peaceful cities. Read more

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