scholarly journals A Connected Community Approach: Citizens and Formal Institutions Working Together to Build Community-Centred Resilience

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (19) ◽  
pp. 10175
Author(s):  
Blake Poland ◽  
Anne Gloger ◽  
Garrett T. Morgan ◽  
Norene Lach ◽  
Suzanne F. Jackson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Community Resilience ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Urban Resilience ◽  
Formal Institutions ◽  
Electrical Grid ◽  
Community Approach ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Building Community

Urban resilience research is recognizing the need to complement a mainstream preoccupation with “hard” infrastructure (electrical grid, storm sewers, etc.) with attention to the “soft” (social) infrastructure issues that include the increased visibility of and role for civil society, moving from (top-down, paternalistic) government to (participatory) governance. Analyses of past shock events invariably point to the need for more concerted efforts in building effective governance and networked relations between civil society groupings and formal institutions before, during, and after crisis. However, the literature contains little advice on how to go about this. In this paper, we advance a Connected Community Approach (CCA) to building community resilience with a specific focus on the relationship between community and formal institutions. In the literature review that informs this work, we assess the current, limited models for connecting communities to formal institutions, as well as the emerging role of community-based organizations in this work, and we offer our own assessment of some of the key tensions, lacunae, and trends in the community resilience field. Principally, we explore the potential of the CCA model, as spearheaded by the East Scarborough Storefront and the Centre for Connected Communities in Toronto, Canada, as a promising approach for building the relational space between civil society and the state that is so often called for in the literature. The paper concludes with future directions for research and practice.

The Role of For-Profit Firms in Disaster Management: A Typology

2021 ◽  
pp. 027614672110201
Author(s):  
Swapan Deep Arora ◽  
Anirban Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Management ◽  
Community Resilience ◽  
Sustained Development ◽  
For Profit ◽  
State Initiative ◽  
Marketing Orientation ◽  
Disaster Studies ◽  
Building Community ◽  
Multiple Levels

Contemporary existence presents a duality of sustained development and recurrent disasters. Whereas disaster studies have closely examined public policy and state initiative, the role of for-profits is under-explored. Stakeholder theory and its integration with marketing orientation provide a theoretical underpinning for understanding the behavior of firms across contingencies, including disasters. Accordingly, we traverse the range of actions that these market entities exhibit in aiding disaster management and develop a comprehensive typology. The current COVID-19 pandemic provides a context for illustrating the practical exemplar actions as mapped to the proposed typology. We add to theory by examining the role of marketing philosophy and for-profits in tackling disasters at multiple levels: from micro-aspects of maintaining relations with specific stakeholders to the macro-objective of building community resilience. Further, the proposed typology helps practice and research by highlighting the range of firms' responses contributing to disaster management and building community resilience.

scholarly journals What lies beyond social capital? The role of social psychology in building community resilience to climate change.

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evangelos Ntontis ◽  
John Drury ◽  
Richard Amlôt ◽  
Gideon James Rubin ◽  
Richard Williams
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Community Resilience ◽  
Building Community

Risk and resilient architectural practices in informal settlements – the role of NGOs

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 276-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Nuno Martins ◽  
Aline Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Informal Settlement ◽  
Community Resilience ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Community Mapping ◽  
Slum Upgrading ◽  
Building Community ◽  
Incremental Housing

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the role played by small-size non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in slum upgrading, building and incremental housing processes in Brazil and Guinea-Bissau, focusing, in particular, on actions to reduce vulnerabilities and enhance community resilience. Design/methodology/approach The research method relied on literature review and fieldwork. It included surveys, activities with the communities, interviews and questionnaires. The data collected were subject to cross-disciplinary and comparative analysis. Findings The paper analyses the innovative methods and solutions used by NGOs in informal settlement upgrading and housing improvement works related to disaster risk reduction, namely, community mapping and design, and show how they end up building community resilience. Research limitations/implications Grasping the impacts of NGOs’ work whether in slums of Brazil or Africa requires staying with communities for a significant amount of time. However, those stays raise many practical problems regarding security, health and related costs. Originality/value The existing literature misses to address from a comparative perspective, the methods used by social workers and designers teams in slums. This paper aims at filling this gap in slum studies. Its originality and value rely on the particular experience of the authors, who were personally involved in the NGOs actions and could deepen the connections between vulnerabilities, risk and successful aid-self-help practices.

The Role of Disaster Entrepreneurship in Building Community Resilience

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 (1) ◽  
pp. 12614 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina K. Linnenluecke ◽  
Brent A McKnight
Keyword(s):  
Community Resilience ◽  
Building Community

scholarly journals Health-Care Services as a Platform for Building Community Resilience among Minority Communities: An Israeli Pilot Study during the COVID-19 Outbreak

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (20) ◽  
pp. 7523
Author(s):  
Odeya Cohen ◽  
Alaa Mahagna ◽  
Asmaa Shamia ◽  
Ortal Slobodin
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Community Resilience ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Suburban Community ◽  
Building Community

Background: Previous studies of minority groups in times of emergency have tended to focus on risk reduction or on individual resilience, overlooking the community factors that could be bolstered to promote better health and safety outcomes. The current study aimed to examine the role of health-care services in the perceived community resilience of urban and suburban Arab communities in Israel during the COVID-19 outbreak. Method: The study included 196 adults age 17–76 years, who filled out on-line questionnaires in May 2020; 112 participants lived in an urban community and 84 lived in a suburban community. Community resilience was evaluated using the Conjoint Community Resiliency Assessment Measure (CCRAM), a validated five-factor multidimensional instrument. Results: Residents of the suburban community reported higher community resilience than residents of the urban community. This difference was related to increased preparedness levels and strength of place attachment in the suburban community. Residents of suburban communities were also more satisfied and confident in health-care services than those of urban communities. Regression analysis showed that the satisfaction with primary health-care services, and not community type, significantly predicted community resilience. Conclusions: Our results support the pivotal role of primary health care in building community resilience of minority communities in times of emergency and routine.

scholarly journals Heritage Community Resilience: towards new approaches for urban resilience and sustainability

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katia Fabbricatti ◽  
Lucie Boissenin ◽  
Michele Citoni
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Community Resilience ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Urban Resilience ◽  
International Policy ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
Peripheral Areas

Abstract The value of cultural heritage and its transmission for “making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable” is an integral part of the UN Agenda 2030 and the new international policy for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030. Nonetheless, the role of culture for these important challenges is an issue that current scientific literature on resilience has not yet sufficiently investigated. Starting from the concept of Heritage Community, elaborated in the Council of Europe's Framework Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society (Framework convention on the value of cultural heritage for society, 2005), along with the hypothesis of its role for Community Resilience, this study elaborates a conceptual framework in which “Heritage Community Resilience” is defined. It is both a target and a process in which cultural heritage supports the building of a community able to prevent, cope with and recover from disturbances and/ or disasters. Through a survey of several case studies on heritage-driven practices in Italian inner peripheral areas, the research aims to define the specific characteristics of Heritage Community Resilience as well as identify any critical actors and variables, strategies and governance mechanisms, which influence both Heritage Community and Community Resilience. It predicts the challenges and highlights the potential that culture and heritage can develop for Community Resilience, towards further perspectives of resilient circular city.

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