Resilience measures accept that the disaster will occur and that the
community will experience some degree of impact.
However, these measures facilitate a rapid return to normal.
Shelters and evacuation protect the human capital of the
community and allow its return.
Community teams (all of these examples are drawn from
practice in the united States) deal with specific problems during
the impact and early recovery.
Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) provide
neighborhood rescue and damage limitation, and the Amateur Radio
Emergency Services (ARES) and Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Services
(RACES) provide extensive communications capabilities.
Community disaster recovery task forces organize community
resources to expand the relief and recovery efforts of first the
federal and state governments and second the national Voluntary
Agencies Active in Disaster.
Backup generators allow rapid restoration of power for critical
systems.
