...Elizabeth Kiem Resilient Cities What makes a city resilient? When the word resilience comes to mind I think of ones ability to bounce back. In the case of matching resilient up with a city I wasn’t quite sure what exactly goes into a city being qualified to earn that adjective. After navigating around the Building Resilient Regions Website and viewing what they do and how they do it, I found myself looking at their resilience capacity index. This index ranks over 300 U.S. cities on how it recovers from stress. Ultimately a cities stress is a mixture of how well it can handle natural disasters, economic decline, and rapid growth. It can be summarized as a cities ability to adapt and transform. When looking at the index the top ranked cities was not what I expected. I decided to see just how resilient one of my favorite cities to go to is; Seattle, Washington. I picked Seattle because I love to visit there. Being from Arizona I love the change of scenery. Cool, rainy, and gray is a nice getaway from scorching and dry. I also have family there so it’s a city close to my heart. I have never thought about its resiliency so after I learn more the next time I go there I can see first hand what needs to be done or what it already doing. Seattle is the largest city in Washington and located between Lake Washington and an inlet of the Pacific Ocean called the Puget Sound. Seattle’s population is over 600,000 people. Seattle is hilly and has wet winters and dry summers. In regards...
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...significant difference between resilience and resistance. Resilience can be defined as a community’s ability to return to its former state after a disturbance. Resilience based approach to community development is founded on the belief that all citizens have the capability to rise above adversity and to thrive in spite of the adversity. Resilience theory is a strengths based model, which means attention is on giving the opportunities and supports that encourage life success, instead of attempting to get rid of the issues that promote failure. Sometimes resilience is confused with the idea of resistance. Resistance is an effort to stop or prevent disruptive events from occurring. Some strategies applied in resistance include physical countermeasures like creating firewalls to shield computer systems from attack. On the other hand, resilience presupposes that resistance might not always be an option and therefore incorporate the provision of or access to optional services and resources if the resistance approach fails. Resilience is not antithetical to resistance. Resilience encompasses resistance because if a society can resist an interruption, its resources are sufficient to prevent the interruption from reducing society functioning with no need for adaption. However, an approach that just directs resources towards resisting threats will almost surely be expensive, and maybe conflict with individual and societal liberties. Resilience is also much better because...
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...It is important for school counselors to understand how different areas of resiliency, such as individual or cultural, relate to school counseling. Resiliency helps a system positively adapt to a stressor or traumatic event (Masten, Herbers, Cutuli, & Lafavor, 2008). A child’s resilience is often in relation to other systems such as culture, community, family, and peers (Masten, Herbers, Cutuli, & Lafavor, 2008). Therefore, it is important for counselors to understand how the different areas facilitate or do not facilitate resilience among students so that the counselor can provide opportunities for students to develop resiliency in order to counteract exposure to things such as divorce, violence, and natural disasters (Masten, Herbers, Cutuli,...
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...The Glass Castle: Resilience “The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.” –Robert Jordan This quote demonstrates how, in human culture, we must be flexible to change and hardship considering, rather, embracing its certain unavoidability. As a living organism, one is bound to the natural tendency to make mistakes; consequently, one is susceptible to the associated consequence of his/her actions. Concerning the above quote by author Robert Jordan, the previous statement describes the oak tree, such that the inability to adapt to the situation presented before oneself may cause such an internal conflict of resilience that he/she fails to persevere in solving the problem at hand. Supporting...
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...Grocery Gateway Case - LSC1B8 1. As products supplied by Grocery Gateway are functional by nature, the company uses physically efficient supply chain. Online grocery is a low cost margin market with stable demand and requires a supply chain strategy, which focuses on minimizing cost by consolidating transportation and reducing cost of storage. Grocery gateway must focus on improving cost efficiency and making the supply chain more resilient. Cost efficiency can be improved by satisfying customer demand while utilizing the transportation at maximum. For improving resilience, company should develop contingency measures to recover quickly from shocks. 2. From Tarang 3. Strategy | Pros | Cons | Keep trucks on roads for longer | * Targeted number of deliveries will be met | * Drop per hour will remain same * Possibly increase variable cost per hour (overtime to drivers, more fuel etc.) | Route profitability via RIMMS | * Increased margins from low number of drops as variable cost are decreased | * Waiting time for customers on low profitability routes will increase leading to loss of sales | Increase in delivery charge | * Higher margin on drops which lead to realizing target revenue at low drop per hour rate | * Against the value of the firm which is to provide low cost goods to consumer | 4. a. Grocery Gateway should manage its fleet size so that the revenue generated is greater than the transportation cost. The key factors to be taken...
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...What is Resilience? Resilience is the ability to cope with problems and setbacks, In the book Unbroken, Louie, Phil and Mac were stranded on a Raft for many days and they faced many obstacles that threatened their survival. Those who showed resilience survived and the ones who showed weakness perished. Louie and his comrades went thru hell after the plane crashed due to mechanical difficulties, only three of the 11 survived the crash. After the crash it is up to Louie for his survival out in the ocean, and his characteristic resilience will help him survive the disaster he is in. Louie showed great resilience throughout his odyssey, First, He demonstrated every part of it. He was aware of the situation that he was in and...
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...Having read this article before, I appreciated being reminded of the importance of developing traits and characteristics that allow me to be resilient toward whatever life brings. Resilience is an attitude that each individual must determine that they are going to adopt (Harrington, 2012). This may be easier for some. The Key Elements of Emotional, Spiritual, Social, Family, and Physical, mentioned by Anna Harrington in, “Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way”, are great factors that assist an individual in being able to become more resilient and overall more successful and happy in life (Harrington, 2012). From personal experience I do not feel as though all these elements must be present for an individual to have resilience in difficult...
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...Research indicates that 1/2 to 2/3 of children living in such extreme circumstances grow up and “overcome the odds” and go on to achieve successful and well adjusted lives. Being resilient doesn’t mean going through life without experiencing stress and pain. People feel grief, sadness, and a range of other emotions after adversity and loss. The road to resilience lies in working through the emotions and effects of stress and painful events. Being resilient is important if you want to become like Bill Gate, or any other successful person. I believe that Louis Silvie Zamperini, Sardar Milkha Singh, and Maysoon Zayid all displayed resilience though out there respected lifetimes and have become such successful people. Louis Zamperini was , if I...
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...My Resiliency at El Cajon Valley High School High resilience allow you to feel more in control of your life. It helps you to deal with the problems you face in different life stages, and in wise ways. If you have the insistence to have more experience, you would be happy each time you face a problem. Increased resistance include developed skills like realistic thinking , optimistic, and living personal values. A new students to the United States may have fear and disappointment that needs to be encouraged every time and another. The first conflict a new student would face is language. When I first came to the United States, I knew some English, but because of the accent and everything was different it was hard for me to communicate with other students, or even teachers. If follows that, it did not not have enough confidence to defend myself if a teacher said something wrong about what I am doing. One time, I was in my English class, with two of my friends that speaks the same language as me, working on an assignment. The teacher heard me talking and she...
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...and Consumer Services was impacted as well. Many within the government had to learn how to communicate to the public, the oystermen, the restaurant owners, and others. Officials were trying to help oystermen who were skeptical to change their tactics of tonging. On top of this, officials needed to find ways to help the industry and the area recover from lost business as well as the community to be resilient. The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services found that an improved way of communication was through social media. Facebook groups were started to communicate to all effected including the oystermen. Education was also implemented to improve communication to oystermen, the community and consumers. Younger oystermen were taught new ways to oyster while seasoned oystermen learned the science behind why the old ways were failing compared to the new ways. They also learned new ways to help change. Through education and social media, communication was improved amongst stakeholders in Apalachicola after the oyster collapse. ...
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...Staying Positive When I began to do research for this paper my first thought was, what exactly is resilience? Resilience is adapting to adversity. It is the ability to roll with the punches that come in life. When stress, adversity, or trauma attacks, a person will still experience anger, grief, and pain, but they are able to keep functioning. Everyone needs to be a little more resilient in life, having a more positive outlook on trials that frequently come each individual’s way. “The Blessings of Adversity” is a talk given by James E. Faust in February of 1998. Faust, at the time, was the second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The main audiences of this talk are members of The Church through out the entire world. In fact he directly mentions the followers through out his entire talk. Faust specifically talks about financial hardships that cause stress in many people’s lives. He states, “Many Saints throughout the world have a difficult time making ends meet” then making it apparent that many individuals who go through low times in their life rise to be very successful, but humble people. This was a significant time for this talk to be given because around 2002 to 2003 there was an economic recession that affected the United States. I personally feel like this talk was preparing many members...
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...Resilience is a human’s ability to adapt to stress. In other words, the power of starting back up from a breakdown or bad things that might happens in our lives, is what defined as the term resilience. As a college student, it is always have been a headache to take math classes. When it comes down to setting up class, mathematics would be my last option. I have always had this fear in me to be in a math class, and struggle for gaining a good grade. I never knew that, I have something in me as well as that fear to fight against it. I knew that I am a fast learner and I get different mathematic concept at the class, but I had no idea why I can’t be successful in the end. Being resilient was always the answer. The fear I’m going to fail was always...
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...Resilience Today, everyone have a strongly willing to be a successful person no matter in which area such as business, communities, study and family life. Although people can find lots of method to achieve the goal, there still are some characters should be aware and conscious cultivation if people want to better integrate with varied of fields. Resilience as a vital role to play in our life and it consist with different kinds of factors. In this essay, it will divide into three parts to discuss four important characters of resilience, including hardiness, adaptability, recovery and flexibility. Besides, in these four parts, it will also present these components how positive connect with communities, organizations, business or individual life. Hardiness Winston Churchill said that “success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” It is a good explain and describe for the word, hardiness. Maddi (2013, p. 7) states hardiness can be as a channel to resilience when face the stress and resilience always as a component to keep individual performance and health no matter in psychological or physiological when they under the pressure environment. It is clear that hardiness has strongly connection with resilience and it is an important factor in our life. White, Absher & Huggins point out hardiness can help people to deal with the transforms from circumstance with high stressful level into less-stressful life events like activity of organization and business...
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...Resilience and Spirituality Abstract Through the course of researching and writing the paper some very interesting things about resilience and spirituality have been observed. While one would assume that a person that exhibits great faith would be very resilient, that is not always the case. Resilience comes from an inner strength that can be magnified by a strong faith. In order for a person to truly have a high level of resilience, they must also have a strong faith. That faith does not have to be in God but it does have to be a faith in something that you believe with protect you and see you through life’s trials. While a belief in something other than God many help a person in the short term, it will ultimately fail them as everything falls short of the Lord. What is Resilience? Simply defined, resilience is the ability bounce back or recoil after being mashed, twisted, or bent. This is a fitting definition as I know that when I have been faced with trauma, I often felt mashed, twisted, or bent. It is such a simple word with a simple meaning but putting into action can often feel almost impossible. Putting this into action requires strength. A person needs to have a strong resolve and a strong faith in order to bounce back in the face of trauma. We are faced with some sort of trauma on an almost daily basis (Maddi, 2013). From the moment we are born we are participating in the Resilience Life Cycle (Dees & Huckabee, 2011). This applies...
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...Resilience and Spirituality In: Philosophy and Psychology Resilience and Spirituality Abstract Through the course of researching and writing the paper some very interesting things about resilience and spirituality have been observed. While one would assume that a person that exhibits great faith would be very resilient, that is not always the case. Resilience comes from an inner strength that can be magnified by a strong faith. In order for a person to truly have a high level of resilience, they must also have a strong faith. That faith does not have to be in God but it does have to be a faith in something that you believe with protect you and see you through life’s trials. While a belief in something other than God many help a person in the short term, it will ultimately fail them as everything falls short of the Lord. What is Resilience? Simply defined, resilience is the ability bounce back or recoil after being mashed, twisted, or bent. This is a fitting definition as I know that when I have been faced with trauma, I often felt mashed, twisted, or bent. It is such a simple word with a simple meaning but putting into action can often feel almost impossible. Putting this into action requires strength. A person needs to have a strong resolve and a strong faith in order to bounce back in the face of trauma. We are faced with some sort of trauma on an almost daily basis (Maddi, 2013). From the moment we are born we are participating...
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