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Key Considerations: Operational Considerations for Building Community Resilience for COVID-19 Response and Recovery

10.19088/sshap.2021.029 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Megan Schmidt-Sane ◽

Eva Niederberger ◽

Tabitha Hrynick

Keyword(s):

Community Resilience ◽

Transformative Change ◽

Vulnerable Communities ◽

The Status ◽

Response And Recovery ◽

Building Community ◽

Resilience Framework ◽

Epidemic Response ◽

The Impact

As the unequal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues, there is a need to robustly support vulnerable communities and bolster ‘community resilience.’ A community resilience approach means to work in partnership with communities and strengthen their capacities to mitigate the impact of the pandemic, including its social and economic fallout. However, this is not resilience which returns the status quo. This moment demands transformative change in which inequalities are tackled and socioeconomic conditions are improved. While a community resilience approach is relatively new to epidemic preparedness and response, it frames epidemic shocks more holistically and from the perspective of a whole system. While epidemic response often focuses on mitigating vulnerabilities, there is an opportunity to use a resilience framework to build existing capacities to manage health, social, psychosocial, and economic impacts of an epidemic. This makes a resilience approach more localised, adaptable, and sustainable in the long-term, which are key tenets of an epidemic response informed by social science. This brief presents considerations for how health and humanitarian practitioners can support communities to respond to and recover from COVID-19 using a community resilience approach. This brief was developed for SSHAP by IDS (led by Megan Schmidt-Sane with Tabitha Hrynick) with Anthrologica (Eva Niederberger).

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Building Community Capacity for Disaster Resilience in Taiwan

Journal of Disaster Research ◽

10.20965/jdr.2010.p0138 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 138-146 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

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.

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Key Considerations: Operational Considerations for Building Community Resilience for COVID-19 Response and Recovery

10.19088/sshap.2021.025 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Megan Schmidt-Sane ◽

Eva Niederberger ◽

Tabitha Hrynick

Keyword(s):

Community Resilience ◽

Transformative Change ◽

Vulnerable Communities ◽

The Status ◽

Response And Recovery ◽

Building Community ◽

Resilience Framework ◽

Epidemic Response ◽

The Impact

As the unequal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues, there is a need to robustly support vulnerable communities and bolster ‘community resilience.’ A community resilience approach means to work in partnership with communities and strengthen their capacities to mitigate the impact of the pandemic, including its social and economic fallout. However, this is not resilience which returns the status quo. This moment demands transformative change in which inequalities are tackled and socioeconomic conditions are improved. While a community resilience approach is relatively new to epidemic preparedness and response, it frames epidemic shocks more holistically and from the perspective of a whole system. While epidemic response often focuses on mitigating vulnerabilities, there is an opportunity to use a resilience framework to build existing capacities to manage health, social, psychosocial, and economic impacts of an epidemic. This makes a resilience approach more localised, adaptable, and sustainable in the long-term, which are key tenets of an epidemic response informed by social science. This brief presents considerations for how health and humanitarian practitioners can support communities to respond to and recover from COVID-19 using a community resilience approach. This brief was developed for SSHAP by IDS (led by Megan Schmidt-Sane with Tabitha Hrynick) with Anthrologica (Eva Niederberger).

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Key Considerations: Operational Considerations for Building Community Resilience for COVID-19 Response and Recovery

10.19088/sshap.2021.002 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Megan Schmidt-Sane ◽

Eva Niederberger ◽

Tabitha Hrynick

Keyword(s):

Community Resilience ◽

Transformative Change ◽

Vulnerable Communities ◽

The Status ◽

Response And Recovery ◽

Building Community ◽

Resilience Framework ◽

Epidemic Response ◽

The Impact

As the unequal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues, there is a need to robustly support vulnerable communities and bolster ‘community resilience.’ A community resilience approach means to work in partnership with communities and strengthen their capacities to mitigate the impact of the pandemic, including its social and economic fallout. However, this is not resilience which returns the status quo. This moment demands transformative change in which inequalities are tackled and socioeconomic conditions are improved. While a community resilience approach is relatively new to epidemic preparedness and response, it frames epidemic shocks more holistically and from the perspective of a whole system. While epidemic response often focuses on mitigating vulnerabilities, there is an opportunity to use a resilience framework to build existing capacities to manage health, social, psychosocial, and economic impacts of an epidemic. This makes a resilience approach more localised, adaptable, and sustainable in the long-term, which are key tenets of an epidemic response informed by social science. This brief presents considerations for how health and humanitarian practitioners can support communities to respond to and recover from COVID-19 using a community resilience approach. This brief was developed for SSHAP by IDS (led by Megan Schmidt-Sane with Tabitha Hrynick) with Anthrologica (Eva Niederberger).

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Key Considerations: Operational Considerations for Building Community Resilience for COVID-19 Response and Recovery

10.19088/sshap.2021.004 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Megan Schmidt-Sane ◽

Eva Niederberger ◽

Tabitha Hrynick

Keyword(s):

Community Resilience ◽

Transformative Change ◽

Vulnerable Communities ◽

The Status ◽

Response And Recovery ◽

Building Community ◽

Resilience Framework ◽

Epidemic Response ◽

The Impact

As the unequal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues, there is a need to robustly support vulnerable communities and bolster ‘community resilience.’ A community resilience approach means to work in partnership with communities and strengthen their capacities to mitigate the impact of the pandemic, including its social and economic fallout. However, this is not resilience which returns the status quo. This moment demands transformative change in which inequalities are tackled and socioeconomic conditions are improved. While a community resilience approach is relatively new to epidemic preparedness and response, it frames epidemic shocks more holistically and from the perspective of a whole system. While epidemic response often focuses on mitigating vulnerabilities, there is an opportunity to use a resilience framework to build existing capacities to manage health, social, psychosocial, and economic impacts of an epidemic. This makes a resilience approach more localised, adaptable, and sustainable in the long-term, which are key tenets of an epidemic response informed by social science. This brief presents considerations for how health and humanitarian practitioners can support communities to respond to and recover from COVID-19 using a community resilience approach. This brief was developed for SSHAP by IDS (led by Megan Schmidt-Sane with Tabitha Hrynick) with Anthrologica (Eva Niederberger).

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A Crowdsourcing based Information System Framework for Coordinated Disaster Management and Building Community Resilience

Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking ◽

10.1145/3369740.3372730 ◽

2020 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jayanta Basak ◽

Parama Bhaumik ◽

Siuli Roy ◽

Somprakash Bandyopadhyay

Keyword(s):

Information System ◽

Disaster Management ◽

Community Resilience ◽

System Framework ◽

Building Community

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What Do You Mean by Community Resilience? More Assets or Better Prepared?

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness ◽

10.1017/dmp.2020.466 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-8

Author(s):

Jianwen Wei ◽

Ziqiang Han ◽

Yang Han ◽

Zepeng Gong

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Disaster Preparedness ◽

Community Resilience ◽

Ordinary Least Squares ◽

2008 Wenchuan Earthquake ◽

Livelihood Assets ◽

The Family ◽

Building Community ◽

Household Livelihood ◽

Social Capitals

Abstract Objectives: Understanding people’s perception of community resilience to disaster is important. This study explores the correlations of household livelihood assets, the adopted household disaster preparedness activities, and individuals’ assessment of community resilience. Methods: The data was collected in 2018 by surveying a group of survivors affected by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in China. The CART (Community Advancing Resilience Toolkit) was used to measure individuals’ perception of community resilience, while the livelihood assets included financial, physical, natural, human, and social capitals owned by the family, and the preparedness contained 13 activities. Ordinary least squares (OLS) regression models were used to test our hypotheses. Results: Social capital is consistently and positively associated with the overall individuals’ perceived community resilience, while the natural, human, and financial capitals’ effects are not significant. The awareness and participation preparedness activities are positively correlated with the perceived community resilience, but the material preparedness activities are not. Conclusions: Social capital and disaster preparedness activities are critical in building community resilience. Community resilience can be achieved by making the community more connected and by providing disaster preparedness interventions.

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

Journal of Macromarketing ◽

10.1177/02761467211020109 ◽

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.

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