While advances in tracking weather-related risks have improved public safety and resilience, we have made far less progress on enhancing global resilience to biological risks and pandemic threats.
The songs are chronicles of poverty, good times, woman trouble, police encounters, history and down-home virtuosity, and their status as precursors of rock means far less than their own resilience and immediacy.
For New Yorkers, of course, the height of One World Trade Centre will matter far less than its message of resilience and renewal.
Additionally, the current scale of fuel treatment is far less than required to achieve landscape resilience (North et al. 2012).
Instead, what we should be measuring (and, more importantly, developing) is far less measurable, an imprecise mix of character, resilience, curiosity and grit.
In any case, as François Grünewald of the Groupe URD research institute highlighted, preventive action is far less costly than emergency intervention after the fact; it also contributes much more to building resilience in vulnerable communities.
Many receive far, far less, if anything.
It adds up to far, far less.
Yet it is the resilience and enduring friendship of these women that is celebrated here, even when they find themselves having to settle for less than they want, always far less than they deserve.
