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By Jennifer Couzin-Frankel http://science.sciencemag.org/

esilience is on many people’s minds these days. even though hardship cripples some, others rebound.
Hurricanes and fi res regularly wallop commu- What can science teach us about how we might gird for
nities. The risks of climate change loom large, future challenges and adapt to them?
and the horrors of war and the refugee crises it To fi nd out, we followed the stories. They took us to
spawns show no signs of abating. Bitter political New Orleans, Louisiana, where social scientists are track-
divisions have yielded to acrimony and gloom. ing Hurricane Katrina survivors. They took us to the Mid- PHOTO: MARIO TAMA/GETTY IMAGES
It’s an unsettling time—made more so be- dle East, where scientists are testing a program designed
cause we humans have nurtured many of these to foster resilience among traumatized children. They
R crises, yet feel unable to control them. But took us to Bangladesh, where residents are rethinking

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