Five Links to Learn More About Resilient Communities

À2mètres : Community Chronicles from Montréal North
Spearheaded by the organization for social inclusion Parole d’excluEs, this blog was launched in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic to give residents of Montréal North, an area that suffers all too often from bad press, an opportunity to speak and be heard.
Relationships matter: The application of social capital to disaster resilience
Daniel Aldrich, our guest interviewee for this issue, invites us to discover this concrete example from the Red Cross that highlights how understanding the relationship between social capital and resilience can inform public and organizational policies.
Measuring Social Capital
This guide is based on action-research projects conducted by Cité-ID Living Lab in collaboration with the city of Montréal and a number of other partners. It provides organizations with a method for measuring the social capital sought and generated by their activities, from questionnaire design right through to the analysis and dissemination of results.
Social Cohesion: A Practical Guide
Designed and published by the international network of 100 Resilient Cities, this handbook is a how-to guide for measuring social cohesion. Whether it’s for decision-making, community engagement or urban development purposes, it provides individuals and organizations with the tools they need to evaluate the strength and quality of the ties that build social capital in communities.
Roadmap for Québec’s Transition to Carbon Neutrality
Created by the Front commun pour la transition énergétique as part of its Zero Net Emissions Québec project (Québec ZéN), the first chapter of this roadmap is entirely devoted to resilience as a way for communities to “reclaim [their] living environments and the means to protect the ecosystems on which [they] depend” to bring about meaningful change.

Read the other sections of this issue

THE EDITORIAL

What can community resilience tell us about our capacity for systemic transformation?

The emergency response required by the COVID-19 pandemic led a number of states to intervene on a variety of levels in the lives of their citizens. Read more

THE ESSAY

Photos de Sidney Ribaux, Marieke Cloutier et Irène Cloutier - Résilience, Raccords 05, Maison de l'innovation sociale

Social Capital in Montreal: A Vector for Community Resilience and the Ecological Transition – By Marieke Cloutier, Sidney Ribaux and Irène Cloutier

Montreal developed its first resilience strategy as part of the 100 Resilient Cities initiative, and in 2016, it created its first-ever Resilience Office. Three years later, ecologist Sidney Ribaux… Read more

THE INTERVIEW

Raccords #05 - De la pertinence du capital social pour orienter les politiques publiques

How Social Capital Helps Shape Public Policy

Interview with Daniel Aldrich, professor of political science and public policy and director of the Security and Resilience Program at Northeastern University, Boston. Read more

THE VIDEO

Raccords #05 - Comment les leçons de la résilience communautaire peuvent-elles contribuer à la transformation systémique?

Montréal North Tells Us About Its Resilience

Confinement measures put in place to control the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated food security issues in Montréal North, where the situation was already precarious. Neighbourhood residents rose to the occasion, mobilizing… View the video