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Resilience:
The Maryland Office of Resilience “worked collaboratively with 37 different agencies and offices at the state and local level to define resilience” We use their definition:
“Resilience is the ability of communities to adapt to the challenges of changing conditions and disasters, including human-caused and natural hazards – and to build, advance, and maintain capacities related to quality of life, health and well-being, durable systems, economic vitality, human made and nature-based infrastructure, and sustainable environmental systems.”
-Definition from the Resilient Maryland Strategy
Adaptation:
We (UMCES IAN) worked with scientists, government agencies, non-profit organizations, and over 100 members of the general public to develop a definition for Adaptation:
Adaptation refers to “the processes and actions taken to improve the ability of a community or ecosystem to respond to and withstand…impacts. Adaptation may include adjusting behaviors, physical processes, or environmental relationships. These adjustments should consider and integrate human and natural systems.