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Community resilience and inclusion

Resilience is a capacity people build, not only a property of infrastructure.

Map community resilience and inclusion on a real place

01Model

The model, step by step

The model

From a shock to a household's recovery time: how livelihood diversity and a scaled social protection transfer shorten the months of lost consumption

DataModelGateDecisionStandard it teachesStandard it relies onNeighbouring discipline

7 steps
Months saved by the transfer
8.8 months
Recovery time constant
12.7 months
Months until the loss is under 10 percent, no transfer
17.6 months
Months until the loss is under 10 percent, with the transfer
8.8 months
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The model From a shock to a household's recovery time: how livelihood diversity and a scaled social protection transfer shorten the months of lost consumption

02Scope

What the discipline covers

The subtopics its courses and labs teach.

Community resilience and inclusion: 1 primary courses open, 3 in preparation and 1 also taught here, across 8 subtopics and 1 connected discipline. Courses: RAF-102 L1 open, RAS-414 L2 in preparation, RAF-122 L1 in preparation, RAN-349 L2 in preparation, RAF-119 L1 also taught here.
Community resilience and inclusion at a glance
  • Open, 1
  • In preparation, 3
  • Also taught here, 1
  • Subtopics, 8
Course codes from the curriculum; study levels L1 to L4.
Courses
1 course open
Levels
L1 Introductory, L2 Intermediate
Labs
Network lab, Exposure lab
  • Community-based risk assessment
  • Indigenous and local knowledge
  • Gender, age and disability inclusion
  • Shock-responsive social protection
  • Livelihood resilience
  • Community preparedness
  • Participation and consent
  • Measuring community resilience

Courses in development extend the scope to further subjects: Indigenous and local knowledge in risk management; Shock-responsive social protection.

03The discipline

The field and its scope

For community organisers, local government staff, programme designers and researchers who work with communities and households to build the capacity to anticipate, absorb and recover from shocks.

04Measures

Quantities and units

05Methods

Methods and their limits

Each method is listed with what it assumes and where it fails.

06Debates

What the field debates

07Bodies and data

Bodies that set practice, and the data they publish

Bodies and standards are named so learners can find and apply their published work; the Academy teaches their use and links to the publisher, and no affiliation is implied.

08Simulator

Run the discipline's simulator

Community resilience and inclusion's own model runs in the scene at the top of this page: set its parameters there and play the steps. The separate chart simulator is left off this page so that it stays within its size budget.

09Maps

Build a twin of any place

Search any place or open the world; the layers and generators follow community resilience and inclusion on the planet map, the globe and in 3D.

The Kahramanmaras earthquake sequence of 2023: a flat plan of the faculty twin. Terrain 59 to 3,044 m; 2 reference earthquakes, M7.5 to M7.8; 3,643,786 people in the box, 2020; Earthquakes M4.5 and above, past week: read live when the 3D twin opens; USGS ShakeMap intensity contours: read live when the 3D twin opens. Contours every 500 metres from the elevation grid; population count 2020, worldpop 1 km as four classes per cell (edges 11, 47, 405); reference earthquakes as marks.
The Kahramanmaras earthquake sequence of 2023, Turkiye. Flat plan of the same data: relief, the two epicentres with magnitude and depth, the WorldPop count grid and the numbers below. The 3D twin opens on devices with WebGL once its data and library have been checked.
  • Terrain 59 to 3,044 m
  • 2 reference earthquakes, M7.5 to M7.8
  • 3,643,786 people in the box, 2020
  • Earthquakes M4.5 and above, past week: read live when the 3D twin opens
  • USGS ShakeMap intensity contours: read live when the 3D twin opens
Credits and dates per layer are listed under the stage. Relief in the twin is exaggerated ×1.5 for legibility.

Drag to move, right drag or Shift with a drag to turn and tilt, Ctrl with the wheel to zoom. Keyboard: arrows move, Shift with arrows turn and tilt, + and - zoom, 0 resets, V steps through the views, Escape clears.

Flat plan of the same data: relief, the two epicentres with magnitude and depth, the WorldPop count grid and the numbers below. The 3D twin opens on devices with WebGL once its data and library have been checked.

The boundaries, names and designations shown do not imply any judgement on the legal status of any territory, or any endorsement or acceptance of such boundaries. Countries: Natural Earth (public domain).

10Nexus Standards

Nexus Standards it teaches and relies on

The Nexus Standards the discipline teaches toward, grouped by master standard, with the disciplines that teach each.

11Research hub

Research hub: papers, preprints and datasets

Open scholarly sources searched with the subject terms of Community resilience and inclusion.

Search termsCommunity resilience and inclusion; Community-based risk assessment; Indigenous and local knowledge; Gender, age and disability inclusion; Shock-responsive social protection; Livelihood resilienceDerived from the Risk Academy page on Community resilience and inclusion.

  • OpenAlexlisted for reference; not queried
  • Crossreflisted for reference; not queried
  • DataCitelisted for reference; not queried
  • Zenodolisted for reference; not queried
  • arXivlisted for reference; not queried
  • Europe PMClisted for reference; not queried
  • OpenAIRE Graphlisted for reference; not queried

No source is enabled for live display on this site yet: the sources are listed for reference and none is queried. Once the publisher of record enables a source after its terms are reviewed, recent works are listed here. Metadata and links only: title, authors, venue, year, type, open-access status and licence as each source records them; works are listed for orientation, not reviewed or endorsed.

12Hub

Research and tools

Research and preprints as they are published, by discipline, with the faculty's other tools.

The hub lists the newest research and preprints for Community resilience and inclusion, each with its source and date. Open the research hub

13Methods and standards

The methods it teaches

From the Academy's risk taxonomy: the discipline's own entries and those of its primary courses, with how many courses teach each.

Methods and practice

  1. Hazard, exposure, vulnerability and capacity assessment1 course
  2. Indicators and composite indices1 course
  3. Uncertainty and confidence1 course
14What is changing now

What is changing now

Recent developments in community resilience and inclusion, each with its source; sources checked on 16 October 2026.

15Courses

Courses in this discipline

Courses with this as their primary discipline.

Courses with this primary discipline1 course open

  1. RAF-102Resilience Building 101Open for enrolmentFoundation, L1 Introductory, 19.5 hours
  2. RAS-414Measuring Resilience: Indicators and EvaluationIn developmentSystems, L2 Intermediate, 8 hours (estimate)
16Also taught here

Courses from connected disciplines that also teach this field

Each course has its primary discipline elsewhere and teaches this field as part of its scope.

From connected disciplinesIn development

  1. RAF-119Inclusive Disaster Risk ManagementIn developmentFoundation, L1 Introductory, 6 hours (estimate), primary discipline: Disaster risk reduction
17Labs

How the subject is practised in labs

LabWhat you do in itCourses using it
Network labBuild dependency graphs, find critical nodes, trace cascades1
Exposure labOverlay people and assets with hazard footprints1
18Technology in this area

How technology helps and what risk it brings

AspectIn this area
Technology that helpsDigital public infrastructure and digital identity.
Risk technology createsExclusion, surveillance and the automation of work.
  • RAN-350 Digital Public Infrastructure: Safeguards and Resilience In development
  • RAN-352 Workforce Risk and the Future of Work In development
  • RAN-369 Autonomous Vehicles, Drones and Uncrewed Systems Risk In development
19Achievements

Achievements in this discipline

21Where this is practised

Where the subject is practised

22Practised in

The two Nexus Foundry systems where it is practised

  • Nexus FoundryAAP systemCommunity-level early action and readinessReadiness room
  • DSS systemOptions weighed with stakeholder preferencesDecisions room

Nexus Foundry system pages describe what each system and its rooms are designed to do; the courses teach the methods these systems apply.

24Across the ecosystem

Across the ecosystem

26References

Core references and where to begin

Start with Norris, then Manyena, then Cutter.

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Community resilience and inclusion

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