Adapting to adversity amid a global pandemic: stakeholder insights about progress and next steps for taking integrative action to build resilient systems
In this Perspective, the authors document the recommendations that emerged from evolving resilience literature and the experiences of resilience stakeholders actively working in their communities to create change during 2020. This Perspective has three aims: to describe the evolution of the integrative resilience research agenda first developed at the 2016 roundtable; to lift up the recommendations and concerns of resilience stakeholders that were not present in the 2016 agenda; and to discuss continued gaps in meeting the earlier roundtable's recommendations for integrative resilience, highlighted by the pandemic response.
The authors provide recommendations for next steps in the integration of a resilience agenda, including:
- Make equity a cross-cutting priority for resilience-oriented systems to avoid reinforcing historical and structural inequities that create or exacerbate risk.
- Make community development and disaster management architectures more inclusive of civil society to elevate community voice and build local economy and agency.
- Take action to accelerate the implementation and evaluation of resilience-oriented policy.
- Support leadership development of resilience capabilities.
- Enhance training and education opportunities across the spectrums of age, race and ethnicity, career, and lived experiences to build a more ribust set of future leaders.
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