Judith Rodin's Five Characteristics Of Resilience

Resilience is our ability to adapt and bounce back when things don't go as planned. Judith Rodin defines five characteristics of resilience as being aware, diverse, integrated, self-regulating and adaptive. I will examine awareness and integrated because I find these two characteristics interesting and an essential aspect of resilience. According to Rodin, being aware is an important characteristic of resilience because you have to know your weakness and strengths to be able to effectively prepare for disasters and respond to them. However, it is impossible to be prepared for totally unexpected things. One day in January 2004, San Francisco experienced a heavy rainfall. Residents found their streets and homes flooded with up to four feet of black water described as rain and poop. Later the city took steps to ensure this kind of situation does not repeat by mobilizing maintenance workers to clear sewers of debris. Daniel Homsey, director of neighborhood resilience manages a program called the Neighborhood Empowerment Network. It works with communities to build awareness of potential threats and then offers necessary support to implement resilience action plans. Awarness:
To learn and how to act upon it when it happens again
The characteristics looks good on paper, but are not
The characteristics of resilience can only be effective when the resources and money are available. Most communities cannot afford it and especially after they are affected with natural disasters. For example, in 2002 two cases of plague occurred in New York City. The doctors did not know how the patients came in contact with the bacteria that has caused the illness. So they used an information system that monitored and tacked about 90 percent of all emergency department in the city and was quickly able to determine that there was no outbreak in the city. Would a country in the third world be able to do