Hazard Risk Resilience Magazine Volume 1 Issue 2 | Page 55

55 The city of Newcastle, UK environment is not necessarily going to be as strong, but the impacts of a loss of something like electricity are going to be significantly higher. When we’re looking at community resilience it’s from the perspective of a community that needs to be resilient to lots of things, not just hazards and threats that appear on our National Risk Register. We’re responding to the ‘localism agenda’ at the moment; it’s about local areas essentially buying into the services that they want, a much more mosaic approach to community services. Does that support the resilience of the community? Has that community