Disaster resilience is associated with the adoption to and recovery of communities, states, organisations and individuals from hazards, stress or shock without having an adverse impact on the long-term prospects for development. These are a strategic plan that’s set into motion to ensure basic security and quality of life against disasters. Culture preparedness entails to the readiness and anticipation of a disaster that had prior happened before and was yet to happen again thus the collective effort of working towards the catastrophe which is passed down to the future generation. Disaster resilience provides the skills and the knowledge required to groom a culture that is prepared for a disaster or any hazard (Keifer 21).
The knowledge is essential to any community to be able to be resilient after which the people will use the knowledge and pass it down to the next generation thus curving a society that has a culture of preparedness towards disaster.
The three steps of mitigation which include; mitigation goal which means they focus on what the community want to achieve with their plan, mitigation actions which entail the specific projects and activities that supplement the objectives and finally the action plan that spells out how the mitigation measures will be implemented as well as which one will be prioritized (Turner 31)
Collaboration provides strength in numbers and confidence to face the disaster knowing that your partner has your back in case something goes wrong. The coordinating part helps with the exchange of ideas, skills and technology. Challenges might come in where there is political instability or misunderstanding. Interorganizational can create disaster resilience by equipping the community with knowledge, skills and the necessary skills.
The barriers can be overcome by creating new friendly policies that favour both parties without making neither superior to the other (Sidler 64).
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