The surest foundation of resilient communities is resilient businesses that can reopen quickly or, even better, never have to close.
What's more, a tight labour market means that wages have kept on rising, a solid foundation for resilient consumption.
On one side rises a face of sheer white-gray marble, which poetically invokes the site's resilient slurry wall, the foundation of the original World Trade Center site that survived the towers' collapse.
Lual Deng, managing director of the Ebony Centre for Strategic Studies, which created the forum, said its members wanted the interim government to lay the foundation for resilient institutions and effective governance.
"Many enterprises will benefit from using containers and sophisticated cluster management as the foundation for resilient, highly scalable infrastructure".
The resilient components in the railway foundation such as the pad and ballast have significant effects on the track vibration.
As the World Humanitarian Summit Pacific consultation draws to a close, we must remember that children are the foundation of strong, disaster-resilient communities.
Workplace flexibility not only results in better business; we believe it will create healthier communities - and help lay the foundation for a stronger, more resilient economy.
Yet what is being proposed has the potential to severely impact those ecosystem services that provide the foundation for a healthy and resilient community.
The foundation of a strong and resilient country, both socially and economically, is its people.
