A New Metric for Community Resilience

Resilience is generally recognized as the ability of a complex system to adapt to change.

Though the need for resilient communities is obvious, exactly how to measure resilience is less obvious. Edward J. Jepson, Jr. provides a new metric of the evidence of a community’s resilience and produces a corresponding ranking of 30 U.S. cities.

Edward J. Jepson Jr.

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