As a starting point it has been said that ‘social cohesion
and solidarity are the foundations of community resilience’ (UNISDR, 2014). Resilience is ‘the ability of a system,
community or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate to and recover from the effects of a hazard
in a timely and efficient manner, including through the preservation and restoration of its essential basic structures
and functions’(UNISDR, 2007).