New NFPA Journal looks deep into the concept of resilience, how it works, why it's important and what it means for NFPA

According to Stephen Flynn, the founding director of the Center for Resilience Studies at Northeastern University, “It will be the most resilient communities, companies, and countries that will prosper in the 21st century—those that are not resilient, that are fragile and brittle, will end up isolated and will fail in the current global environment.” In other words, it’s simply not enough to be able to recover from a disaster. Those people, buildings, communities, businesses, and systems that truly thrive must recover fast and with minimal disruption. This concept of resiliency—the ability to withstand a disruption, blunt the impact, recover quickly,...