A novel study empirically linking a standardized measure of community resilience in more than 3,100 U.S. counties to cognitive, mental, and physical health outcomes shows that counties with fewer ...
In 2019, the United States experienced 14 natural disasters, each causing damages of over $1 billion. These disasters included severe weather events, hailstorms, wildfires, flooding, tornadoes, ...
Local kids learned to harvest and sell food during a youth-led farmers market event at Leo’s. (Photo by Miracle Martinez) Leo’s Community Development Center in Superior, Arizona, serves people before ...
Health care and education systems are two main pillars of a community's stability. How well and how quickly a community recovers following a natural disaster depends on the resilience of these ...
Summer heat and hurricane season have arrived, introducing new risks like the ones American communities are still rebuilding from, including the Pacific Palisades wildfires and Hurricane Helene in ...
COVID-19 has left many feeling isolated and alone. However, disasters like this impact whole communities, which means that effective solutions to disaster-related stress can be found in community ...
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While serving as the U.S. Army Chief of Engineers and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), our team helped finalize the infrastructure work post-Katrina and the recovery ...
Every country has approached COVID-19 through a different cultural lens. Dr. Louis describes how cooperation and mutual support have shaped Rwanda's response. Elizabeth Farrah Louis, Ph.D., is a ...