Cheryl Liang distinguishes between community-based disaster risk reduction and community-based disaster management and describes the shared goal of community resilience and the role of individuals in building resilience. In order to achieve that goal more successfully, residents of the community play an important role in bearing the responsibility and committing to it alongside local authorities and community leaders. Cheryl describes three components of resilience, the reflectiveness of communities to learn from their past, the social connectedness to be able to communicate, and the presence of tools such as early warning systems to mitigate the impacts. Additionally, the higher authorities are responsible for building effective risk perceptions and capacities to manage future disasters, these are fundamental in building community resilience.
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