b'SOCIAL IMPACT REPORTOur plan for building an economic resilience center on Kauai is emerging at a time of unprecedented climate change and socio-economic challenges. In resilience literature, such challenges are called wicked problems. ADDRESSING URGENTWicked problems are those that have no precedent, where the uncertainty and stakes PRIORITIES are high, where there is urgency, and where there are multiple values in conflict.The challenges we face include land use degradation, a lack of affordable housingAltering the Status Quo and a growing wealth gap that is drivingKauai residents away from their homesand cultural heritage.Despite the wicked problems we face, nature has and continues to provide ecological assets that are providing essential engineering services that protect and provide for us. And they are doing it for free.17'