scholarly journals Building Community Disaster Resilience: Perspectives From a Large Urban County Department of Public Health

2013 ◽  
Vol 103 (7) ◽  
pp. 1190-1197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alonzo Plough ◽  
Jonathan E. Fielding ◽  
Anita Chandra ◽  
Malcolm Williams ◽  
David Eisenman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Disaster Resilience ◽  
Building Community ◽  
Community Disaster Resilience

Building Community Capacity for Disaster Resilience in Taiwan

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang-Chun Chen ◽  
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Yi-Wen Wang ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Community Resilience ◽  
Disaster Resilience ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Face ◽  
Building Community ◽  
Practical Experiences ◽  
Community Disaster Resilience

In the face of large-scale, high intensity, and continuously occurring disasters, the concept of community resilience in disaster management has gradually developed and drawn significant attention. This paper focuses on how to build community disaster resilience, based on practical experiences of disaster recovery in Taiwan, for the purpose of increasing community resilience. In order to build community disaster resilience, the Taiwanese central government has designed a community-based process for disaster adaptation. Since 2004, the process has been applied to more than one hundred communities in Taiwan, not only by our research team but also by the Taiwanese government. Two successful cases are used to illustrate our framework for community disaster resilience, which should include the two major components of emergency adjustment and long-term adaptive capacity. Significant factors for making the process operational are clarified so as to form a long-term framework for building community disaster resilience.

The Road to Resilience: Insights on Training Community Coalitions in the Los Angeles County Community Disaster Resilience Project

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 812-821 ◽  
Author(s):  
Biblia S. Cha ◽  
Rachel I. Lawrence ◽  
Jesse C. Bliss ◽  
Kenneth B. Wells ◽  
Anita Chandra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Local Health ◽  
Disaster Resilience ◽  
Community Coalitions ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Building Activities ◽  
Community Disaster Resilience

AbstractObjectiveLocal health departments (LHDs) have little guidance for operationalizing community resilience (CR). We explored how community coalitions responded to 4 CR levers (education, engagement, partnerships, and community self-sufficiency) during the first planning year of the Los Angeles County Community Disaster Resilience (LACCDR) Project.MethodsSixteen communities were selected and randomly assigned to the experimental CR group or the control preparedness group. Eight CR coalitions met monthly to plan CR-building activities or to receive CR training from a public health nurse. Trained observers documented the coalitions’ understanding and application of CR at each meeting. Qualitative content analysis was used to analyze structured observation reports around the 4 levers.ResultsAnalysis of 41 reports suggested that coalitions underwent a process of learning about and applying CR concepts in the planning year. Groups resonated with ideas of education, community self-sufficiency, and engagement, but increasing partnerships was challenging.ConclusionsLHDs can support coalitions by anticipating the time necessary to understand CR and by facilitating engagement. Understanding the issues that emerge in the early phases of planning and implementing CR-building activities is critical. LHDs can use the experience of the LACCDR Project’s planning year as a guide to navigate challenges and issues that emerge as they operationalize the CR model. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2016;10:812–821)

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