Coastal communities face multiple social, economic, and environmental shocks, including coastal hazards, shifts in resource availability, market fluctuations, and regulatory change. How do communities -- and the resource users and other decision-makers who are part of them -- navigate these changes? In some cases, individual and collective action by communities results in resilience and even adaptation to environmental and institutional change. In other cases, communities falter and even collapse. What characteristics contribute to resilient communities, particularly those dependent on fisheries? How can decision makers -- particularly those at local to regional scales -- facilitate community resilience? Our panel of leading experts will present the latest findings in this emerging research frontier, integrating ecology, economics, anthropology, and geography to define both key challenges and practical solutions for sustaining coastal systems. These scientists and practitioners, working in diverse social-ecological contexts, will identify technological, demographic, ecological, socioeconomic, and institutional factors that contribute to individual and community-scale resilience. They will share emerging approaches for measuring social resilience and other dimensions of human well-being and incorporate this information into fisheries management and ecosystem-based management efforts, based on work in the United States, Mexico, Thailand, and the Caribbean.