The community resilience estimates cre is a resilience measure that identifies a communitys ability to endure respond and recover from the impact of disasters rural counties are far more likely to have greater proporitons of high risk populations. Told through the voices of local community leaders this book analyzes how communities respond to natural disasters and how outsiders contribute positively or negatively to their response promoting debate on the role of aid and the media in times of crisis anouk ride is a journalist and phd . The first step towards enhancing the resilience of a community involves understanding the communitys strengths and vulnerabilities as well as its physical characteristics eg local infrastructure procedural characteristics eg disaster policies and plans and social characteristics eg level of community cohesion. Download citation conclusion community resilience in natural disasters looking back on the experience the story was the modern ages typical natural disaster the causes were part natural