Resiliency is the ability for anything to be impacted by something, meaning there is a change, and for that thing to return to its original state. The amount of change it can withstand is known as the resilience capacity.

Think of a rubber band, the rubber band is acted upon by you pulling it apart, but when you let go it snaps back together and maintains the same shape it started in. Our city’s systems and services can be thought of in a similar way.

 

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Our resilience capacity can be understood as our ability to keep stretching the rubber band and it returning to its original state. Eventually the rubber band will wear out or break if the same thing keeps happening without change.

The City’s ability to withstand and move beyond the impacts of climate change is our resilience capacity. To increase our capacity we must implement strategies to adapt to and mitigate the impacts of climate change. Climate change is a global issue, thinking globally and acting locally is how we can adapt to and mitigate the climate crisis.

For more information on resiliency efforts locally and statewide, please visit Resilient Connecticut

Also, check out the 2023 Ash Creek Estuary Master Plan