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Social Resilience

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-025914

The capacity of a system, community, or society potentially exposed to hazards to adapt, by resisting or changing, in order to reach and maintain an acceptable level of functioning and structure. This is determined by the degree to which the social system is capable of organizing itself to increase its capacity for learning from past disasters for better future protection and to improve risk reduction measures. (SDR, 2005)

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENV-025914
FieldEnvironment
ReferencesAdapted from NOAA Coastal Inundation Toolkit Glossary
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-025914",
  "term": "Social Resilience",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "The capacity of a system, community, or society potentially exposed to hazards to adapt, by resisting or changing, in order to reach and maintain an acceptable level of functioning and structure. This is determined by the degree to which the social system is capable of organizing itself to increase its capacity for learning from past disasters for better future protection and to improve risk reduction measures. (SDR, 2005)",
  "references": [
    "Adapted from NOAA Coastal Inundation Toolkit Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/social-resilience/"
}

Record 25,914 of 30,736 in Environment terminology (MLC-0121). Request the full dataset.