Community Resilience: A New Theme in Modernizing Community-Level Governance System and Capability in China

This research begins by comprehensively exploring previous research related to community resilience and what steps are used to increase community resilience in reducing disaster risk. Conceptually, it is known that the fatigue model accumulated by the time system, infrastructure system, governance system, regulatory system, and hazard system for disaster risk reduction is often associated with weakening community resilience. It is often associated with catastrophic events, which are sometimes predictable and unpredictable. In manual decision-making, people are aware of the inconsistency of subjective decisions. A decision support system hypothesizes that it will take less time to explore data to make faster and more informed decisions. As a result of this concept, it is possible to reduce the number of wrong choices when dealing with disaster risk reduction issues. In terms of disaster risk reduction, the power of decision support systems is discussed in this paper to find a framework for its effectiveness as relative decision making will differ on different dimensions of Resilience.

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Community Advantage and Individual Self-Efficacy Promote Disaster Preparedness: A Multilevel Model among Persons with Disabilities

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph16152779 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 16 (15) ◽

pp. 2779 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Rachel M. Adams ◽

David P. Eisenman ◽

Deborah Glik

Keyword(s):

Self Efficacy ◽

Disaster Preparedness ◽

People With Disabilities ◽

Community Resilience ◽

Community Level ◽

Public Health Response ◽

Persons With Disabilities ◽

Community Factors ◽

Self Rated Health ◽

The Relationship

Disaster preparedness initiatives are increasingly focused on building community resilience. Preparedness research has correspondingly shifted its attention to community-level attributes that can support a community’s capacity to respond to and recover from disasters. While research at the community level is integral to building resilience, it may not address the specific barriers and motivators to getting individuals prepared. In particular, people with disabilities are vulnerable to disasters, yet research suggests that they are less likely to engage in preparedness behaviors. Limited research has examined what factors influence their ability to prepare, with no studies examining both the individual and community characteristics that impact these behaviors. Multilevel modeling thus offers a novel contribution that can assess both levels of influence. Using Los Angeles County community survey data from the Public Health Response to Emergent Threats Survey and the Healthy Places Index, we examined how social cognitive and community factors influence the relationship between disability and preparedness. Results from hierarchical linear regression models found that participants with poor health and who possessed activity limitations engaged in fewer preparedness behaviors. Self-efficacy significantly mediated the relationship between self-rated health and disaster preparedness. Living in a community with greater advantages, particularly with more advantaged social and housing attributes, reduced the negative association between poor self-rated health and preparedness. This study highlights the importance of both individual and community factors in influencing people with disabilities to prepare. Policy and programming should therefore be two-fold, both targeting self-efficacy as a proximal influence on preparedness behaviors and also addressing upstream factors related to community advantage that can create opportunities to support behavioral change while bolstering overall community resilience.

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Community resilience to natural disasters: the role of disaster entrepreneurship

Journal of Enterprising Communities People and Places in the Global Economy ◽

10.1108/jec-01-2015-0005 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 166-185 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Martina K. Linnenluecke ◽

Brent McKnight

Keyword(s):

Natural Disasters ◽

Disaster Response ◽

Community Resilience ◽

Community Level ◽

Organizational Response ◽

Illustrative Case ◽

Content Type ◽

Case Examples ◽

For Profit ◽

Latent Structures

Purpose The paper aims to examine the conditions under which disaster entrepreneurship contributes to community-level resilience. The authors define disaster entrepreneurship as attempts by the private sector to create or maintain value during and in the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster by taking advantage of business opportunities and providing goods and services required by community stakeholders. Design/methodology/approach This paper builds a typology of disaster entrepreneurial responses by drawing on the dimensions of structural expansion and role change. The authors use illustrative case examples to conceptualize how these responses improve community resilience by filling critical resource voids in the aftermath of natural disasters. Findings The typology identifies four different disaster entrepreneurship approaches: entrepreneurial business continuity, scaling of organizational response through activating latent structures, improvising and emergence. The authors formulate proposition regarding how each of the approaches is related to community-level resilience. Practical implications While disaster entrepreneurship can offer for-profit opportunities for engaging in community-wide disaster response and recovery efforts, firms should carefully consider the financial, legal, reputational and organizational implications of disaster entrepreneurship. Social implications Communities should consider how best to harness disaster entrepreneurship in designing their disaster response strategies. Originality/value This research offers a novel typology to explore the role that for-profit firms play in disaster contexts and adds to prior research which has mostly focused on government agencies, non-governmental organizations and emergency personnel.

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