Professor Keith Shaw argues that community resilience should be viewed as a transformational agenda that empowers local communities and promotes social and environmental justice. He emphasizes the importance of human agency, identifying community assets and social capital. True resilience comes from ordinary people innovating in grassroots, bottom-up approaches like Transition Towns, not by imposing solutions from the outside. Nurturing resilience requires facilitating, not commanding, local diversity and allowing communities to develop their own solutions.